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conducting the annual election resulted in the only regrettable 

 incident connected with this otherwise highly successful meeting. 

 The present method should be changed speedily. It has been 

 suggested that a process should be adopted b}^ which the secre- 

 tary should send to every member blanks for nominations for 

 each officer ; each member to nominate one person for each 

 office. Upon receiving these nominations the secretary should 

 ascertain those having the two highest numbers of nominating 

 votes, and mail to each member a ballot placing these in nomi- 

 nation, and requesting a vote. 



The extent of the interest taken in the meeting is shown by 

 the number of papers presented, which reached forty-nine, and 

 by the fact that discussions were quite generally participated in. 

 The presence of ladies at the banquet and the efforts of the 

 committee on entertainment and those of the toastjnaster. Pro- 

 fessor Emerson, combined to render this feature of the meeting 

 most enjoyable. J. P. I. 



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In the October-November number of the Journal of Geology 

 (p. 8 1 1 ) Mr. J. B. Tyrrell's paper on the " Genesis of Lake Agassiz " 

 includes incidental reference to the application of the name 

 "Laurentide Glacier," upon which it may be useful to make 

 some comment. When it had been shown by the writer that 

 the Cordilleran ice-sheet of the West was self-contained, it 

 became evident that the great eastern division of what had 

 previously been referred to as a "continental glacier" required 

 some distinctive appellation. The name Laurentide glacier was 

 then proposed in the following terms : "Recognizing, however, 

 the essential separateness of the western and eastern confluent 

 ice-masses, and the fact that it is no longer appropriate to 

 designate one of these the 'Continental glacier' the writer 

 ventures to propose that the eastern mer de glace may appropri- 

 ately be named the Laurentide glacier while its western fellow is 

 known as the Cordilleran glacier y^- Thus it appears that the 



^American Geologist, Sept. 1890. See also Trans. Royal Soc, Canada, Vol. 

 VIII, Sec. IV, p. 56. 



