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Prof. Locke offered some remarks, explanatory of IMi*. Hall's 

 opinion on the equivalency of the western formations. 



Prof. Hitchcock read a paper on the determination of the sili- 

 cified trunk of a tree found in the new red sandstone of Con- 

 necticut. 



The Association then proceeded to the election of a standing 

 committee. 



Resolved, That this committee consist of the following gentle- 

 men: Prof. Edward Hitchcock, Dr. Ducatel, Dr. C. T. Jack- 

 son, Prof. Lewis C. Beck, Mr. Lardner Vanuxem, Dr. J. B. 

 Rogers, Prof. J. W. Bailey, Prof. John Locke, and Prof. B. 



SiLLIMAN. 



Resolved, That Dr. King and Dr. David Dale Owen, be ad- 

 ded to the committee on the western mounds. Adjourned to 



Friday, April 29, 9 o'clock, a. m. — Association met pursuant 

 to adjournment. Prof. Beck in the chair ; minutes of the last 

 meeting read ; proceeded to the choice of officers for the ensuing 

 year, according to the resolve of yesterday. The following 

 gentlemen were unanimously elected : Prof. Henry D. Rogers, 

 Chairman; Prof. John Locke, Treasurer; Prof. Oliver P. Hub- 

 bard, Secretary. 



Resolved, That the next meeting of this Association be held in 

 Albany, N. Y. 



The secretary was requested to answer a communication from 

 the National Institute at Washington, inviting the Association to 

 meet in that city. 



In consequence of the election of Prof. Locke to the office of 

 treasurer, a vacancy was left in the standing committee, he being 

 ex officio a member of that committee. Mr. John L. Hayes was 

 elected in his place. 



Prof. Wm. B. Rogers, Prof. Locke and Prof. Hitchcock, were 

 appointed a committee to confer on the subject of the time of the 

 next meeting. 



Resolved, That the publication of the abstract of the proceed- 

 ings of this meeting of the Association, be committed to the 

 chairman and secretaries of the present meeting. 



A communication was read from Mr. J. E. Teschemacher, con- 

 taining " a description of the oxide of Tin, found at the Tourma- 

 lin locality of Chesterfield, Mass.'' 



Prof. Beck read the title of a paper " on some Trappean INIin- 

 erals, and the general Geological conclusions to be di-awn from 

 their History." 



