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Green River equivalents, the Wasatch and Puerco faunas, in the Blanco 

 and Good-night beds of Pliocene age as well as in the Loup Fork and 

 John Day series of Miocene age, was described in its broader bearings 

 and results, together with further work in the Pleistocene deposits of 

 Pt. Kennedy, &c. Cope's correlations of American strata with European 

 equivalents, from a palaeontologist's point of view, have proved to be 

 " exactly right." 



Prof. y. F. Kemp then read the obituary notice of the late Prof. 

 J. F. James of the U S. Geological Survey, prepared by Mr. T. W. 

 Stanton, of Washington. It showed the amount and nature of the 

 work done by this enthusiastic geologist, who died at such an early 

 age. 



There were some very interesting papers read, among which we 

 note the following titles and abstracts of special interest to Canadians 

 and the members of this Club : — 

 Ells, Dr. R. W. — " Notes on the Sands and Clays of the Ottawa Basin." 



In this paper Dr. Ells showed the views held in 1863, when the 

 chapter on " The Superhcial Geology of Eastern Canada and the 

 Lower Ottawa," was written in the " Geology of Canada" (Logan). He 

 went on to describe the relative heights of principal points in the 

 Ottawa Valley, Grand Lake, 900 ft.; Lake Tcmiscaming, 585 ft. ; Head- 

 waters of the Rideau River, 417. The general distribution of the 

 marine clays and sands throughout the Ottawa valley was also given 

 and the occurrence of fossiliferous calcareous nodules at Lachute, 

 Rouge River, Besserer's, Green's Creek, and west as far as Bryson. 

 Fish remains and shells occur in the marine beds. The Chalk River 

 sand plains were also noticed and their genesis indicated. 

 Bell, Dr. Robert. — " Fossil-like forms in the Sault Ste. Marit Sand- 

 stone." 



The markings noticed were said by Dr. Bell to be " probably 

 -casts of dessication cracks." 



Bell, Dr. Robert. — " Mastodon a?id Majnmoth Re?nains forind near 

 Hudson Bay." 

 Notes (i) the discovery of Mas'odon remains near the junction of 



