42 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF 



THIRD SESSION. 1842. 



Monday, April 25th, 1842, 9 o'clock, a. m. — Association met 

 at Boston, pursuant to adjournment of last meeting. 



Dr. Morton (the chairman) not having arrived. Prof. Locke 

 was called to the chair. Dr. C. T.Jackson, was chosen secretary. 

 Mr. JosiAH D. Whitney and Mr. Moses B. Williams were ap- 

 pointed assistant secretaries. 



Letters were then read by the secretary from Messrs. W. W. 

 Mather, Robert Gilmore, H. H. Harden, Baron Lederer, 

 Francis Markoe, Jr., R. Harlan, and Dr. Douglass Hough- 

 ton, regretting their inability to attend the meeting. It was 

 then. 



Resolved, That all those gentlemen, whether of this or any 

 other country, who are interested in geology and the allied 

 branches of science, and who may be present on this occasion, 

 be invited to unite with the Association in its deliberations. 



A letter being read by the secretary from Prof. Silliman, stat- 

 ing his readiness to comply with the wishes of the Association, 

 either to deliver his addi'ess before the Association alone or be- 

 fore the public : — It was 



Resolved, That the address of Prof. Silliman be delivered to 

 the Association in presence of the public. 



Resolved, That the local committee be authorized to make all 

 necessary arrangements for the accommodation of the audience 

 during the delivery of this address. 



Resolved, That any gentleman requesting permission to read 

 a paper, on condition that it be returned to him without an ab- 

 stract of its contents having been entered on the minutes, may 

 have the privilege, on merely allowing its title to be recorded. 

 Provided only, that in all cases where the paper is to be with- 

 drawn, as above, there shall be no discussion on the subject. 



The Association then adjourned until 3^ o'clock, p. m. 



Note. As a rule of the Association excludes oral remarks from the records, oa 

 account of the difllciilty of reporting them correctly, but sanctions the subsequent com- 

 munication of thorn by their aiuhors. and as these minutes were thus furnished by some 

 gentlemen and not by others, this will account for the very disproportionate space occu- 

 pied by the remarks of different individuals, as published in the annexed abstract of the 

 proceedings. Many valuable observations have thus been lost which there is much 

 occasion to regret, and particularly those of Mr. Lyell, of which no minutes were com- 

 municated, although the Association listened to him with much satisfaction during the 

 several periods when he favored them with his views. 



