ORDINARY MEETING.* 
THEOPHILUS G. PINCHES, Esq., LL.D., IN THE CHAIR. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 
The following elections took place :— 
LirE Memser :—Colonel A. W. C. Bell, India Staff Corps. 
Associaté :—Rev. H. D. Griswold, Lahore, India. 
The following paper was then read by the Secretary in the absence of 
the Author :— 
TIME DIVISIONS OF THE ICH AGE. By WARREN 
Upuam, Esq., M.A., F.G.S.A., Secretary of the Minnesota 
Historical Society, St. Paul, Minn. 
N a former paper, on the “Causes of the Ice Age,” pub- 
lished in the Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria 
Institute (vol. xxix, 1897, pp. 201-223), my concluding words 
stated my belief that the Ice age was “essentially continuous 
and single, with important fluctuations, but not of epochal 
significance, both during its advance and decline.” This 
view is consistent with recognition and emphasis of its time 
divisions, indicated by oscillations of the boundaries of 
glaciation and by diverse conditions of drift deposition ; but 
these divisions seem to me to merit designation as stages, 
rather than as epochs, of geologic time. Numerous and well 
marked stages of the Glacial period have been distinguished, 
and may be correlated in the same succession, being there- 
fore in all probability of nearly contemporanecus duration, in 
North America and Europe. 
American gilacialists have found it convenient to give to 
the comparatively short closing part of the Ice age a dis- 
* 15th April, 1901. 
