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in. permitting me to preside on the present occasion. I can as- 
sure you that I have listened with entire satisfaction and instrue- 
tion to the proceedings of this body, which will fully sustain the 
high reputation of those gentlemen who have favored us with 
their communications, and at the same time establish the charac- 
ter of the Association at home and abroad. I look forward with 
confidence to its widely i increasing utility, and with the most ear- 
hest desire to codperate in your future labors, and confident of 
your success, I again thank you for the distiniotishs you have 
thus kindly eonteried upon me. 
Prof. Locke was chosen chairman during the remaining part of 
the session. 
Mr. Couthouy continued his remarks on the range of the vol- 
canoes of the South Sea islands, and in regard to the progressive 
movement of volcanic action in a fixed direction. 
Prof. Locke offered some remarks in regard to the Oulophyl- 
lites found on the Wabash river ; ; also on the diamond found in 
Indiana on ground near and below the coal. 
Dr, Amos Binney and Dr. A. A. Gould were added to the 
committee on publication. 
Mr. James Hall exhibited sections on Lake Erie, showing bro- 
ken strata with intermingled drift; he also spoke in regard to wood 
and bones found in the drift of various parts of the State of New 
York, particularly in the Genesee river, and in regard to the 
change which has there taken place in the channel of the river. 
James D. Dana, A. M,, of the U.S. exploring paca Palen 
invited to become a Sambar of this Association. 
Prof. Locke in resigning the chair remarked :—In fitting “with 
the members of the Association, I cannot refrain from adverting 
to the fine spirit of harmony and cordiality which has characteri- 
zed the present meeting throughout all of its transactions. To 
preserve so desirable a condition, it is of the utmost importance - 
that we observe, in all our communications, the most delicate. 
“oe of justice to the previous labors and publications of 
It is not sufficient that we may plead that we have not 
ita their productions ; we must read them, and give credit in 
order to preserve each his own reputation. To give credit is to 
acquire credit, and to withhold it is to sink ourselves into disgrace. 
I will only i add, that my happiness has been vastly increased by 
th ts which I have here formed. And 
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