.324 Proceedings 



280th Meeting, March 6th, 1906, in the Directors' room, Public Lilrary 



Building. 



Vice President Winchell in the chair: 24 members and guests 

 present. 



Moved by Roe that the amendment to the constitution changing 

 the name to the "Minnesota Academy of Science", according to the 

 notice given at the last meeting, be adopted. Seconded. After some 

 discussion it was carried. Similarly, the other proposed amendment, 

 adding the Vice President ex-officio as a member of the trustees, was 

 adopted. 



Mr. Roe again spoke of the desirability of getting women mem- 

 bers and moved the membership dues of women be rebated from $5. 

 to $2. for one year from date. Seconded and carried in the amended 

 form "That membership dues required from lady members for one 

 year from date be $5, but that $3 be remitted." 



At 8:30 Mr. H. B. Norton resumed his presentation of the drift 

 as due to water rather than glacial action. He quoted from Dawson 

 and Alex. Winchell in support of this theory discussed the "Drift- 

 less Area" in Wis. as due to water alone, for it was not a plateau, 

 as all the large rivers now ran through it, and he did not consider 

 that the glacier came nearer it than the north shore of lake Superior, 

 1. e., about 400 miles. 



Animated discussion at 9 o'clock; Sardeson speaking of the per- 

 sonal equation in scientific work and described the Greenland glacier 

 and what it probably could do here and the fact of large stones 

 dropped in Iowa on fine ciay. 



Mr. Upham appreciated the speaker's observations, but reminded 

 him that the glacial theory was not the work of any one man, but 

 of many men, and any single observer's results must be compared 

 with many others. He added that J. W. Spencer, the geologist of 

 Missouri and Georgia, also held to the floating ice theory of Dawson, 

 by whom he was educated. Yet the great majority of geologists held 

 to the glacial theory. 



Mr. Norton replied for ten minutes. 



At 9:25 Professor H. L. Osborn of Hamline University, presented 

 some "Remarks on Clinootomum Marginatum." 



Adjournment at 10:10. 



HARLOW GALE, Secretary. 



281s^ Meeting, April M, 1906, Directors' Room, Public Library. 



Vice President Winchell in the chair: about 25 members and 

 ::^uests present. An offer of a copy of Eaton's Ferns of America was 

 received from Dr. W. H. Leonard. The offer of Henry W, Eustis' 

 'Collection of butlerlies and moths by means of a public subscription 

 was explained by Winchell and Oestlund. 



