Contents of J^olume P 



NUMBER I. 



PAGE 



Comparison of the Carboniferous and Permian Formations of Kan- 

 sas AND Nebraska. Charles S. Prosser . . - - - i 



Evidences of Recent Elevation of the Southern Coast of Baf- 



fins Land. Thomas L. Watson ------- 17 



PlALIAN PeTROLOGICAL SKETCHES. III. ThE BrACCIANO, CeRVETERI, 



AND TOLFA Regions. Henry S. Washington - . . - 34 

 Mode OF Formation of Till as Illustrated by the Kansas Drift of 



Northern Illinios. Oscar H. Hershey ----- 50 



The Geology of the San Francisco Peninsula. Harold W. Fair- 

 banks ------------ 63 



Editorial - . - - 77 



Reviews : Manual of Determinative Mineralogy, with an Introduction on 

 Blowpipe Analysis, by George J. Brush (review by O. C. P^arrington), 

 86; The Dinosaurs "of North America, bv Othniel Charles Marsh 

 (review by E. C. C), 87. --------- 85-88 



Abstracts : Papers read at the Washington Meeting of the Geological 

 Society of America; Glacial Observations in the Umanak District, 

 Greenland, by George H. Barton, 89 ; The Origin and Relations of 

 the Grenville and Hastings Series in the Canadian Laurentian, by 

 Frank D. Adams and Alfred E. Barlow, 92 ; The Origin and Age of 

 the Gypsum Deposits of Kansas, by G. P. Grimsley, 95 ; The Cor- 

 nell Glacier, Greenland, by Ralph S. Tarr, 94 ; Unconformities in 

 Martha's Vineyard and Block Island, by J. B. Woodworth, 96; Homol- 

 ogy of Joints aiid Artificial F'ractures, by J. B. Woodworth, 97; Notes on 

 Rock-weathering, by George P. Merrill, 98 ; Notes on the Potsdam and 

 Lower Magnesian F^ormations of Wisconsin and Minnesota, by Joseph 

 F. James, 99 ; Preliminary Note on the Pleistocene History of Puget 

 Sound, by Bailey Willis, 99; The Leucite Hills of Wyoming, by J. ¥. 

 Kemp, 100; The Pre-Cambrian Topography of the Eastern Adiron- 

 dacks, byj. F\ Kemp, loi; Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the 

 Laramie and Related Formations in Wyoming, by T. W. Stanton and 

 F. H. Knowlton, 102 ; A Complete Oil-well Record in the McDonald 

 FMeld between the Pittsburg Coal and the Fifth Oil Sand, by I. C. 

 White, 103 ; A Note on the " Plasticity " of Glacial Ice, by Israel C. 

 Russell, 104 ; Work of the U. S. Geological Survey in the Sierra 

 Nevada, by H. W. Turner, 105; Shore Lines of Lake Warren and of 

 a Lower Water Level in Western-central New York, by H. L. Fair- 

 child, 106 ; Principal Features of the Geology of Southeastern Wash- 

 ington, by Israel C. Russell, 107; Old Tracks of F:rian Drainage in 

 Western New York, by G. K. Gilbert, 109 ; The Physical Nature of 

 the Problem of General Geological Correlation, by Charles R. Keyes, 

 no ; Modified Drift in St. Paul, Minnesota, by Warren Upham, iii. 89-112 



