EDI LORIAL. 
THE fiftieth anniversary of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science was held at Boston, August 22 to 
27. The total enrolled attendance was 903, new members 273. 
The number of papers read before the Geological Section was 
29; before the Geological Society 19; before the National 
Geographic Society 8; making the total of geologic and geo- 
graphic papers 55. 
The titles of the papers were as follows: 
VICE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 
Glacial Geology in America. By Professor H. L. FAIRCHILD, Rochester, 
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BEFORE THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 
I. Some Features of the Drift on Staten Island, N. vee By ARTHUR 
HOLLICK, Columbia University, New York, N. Y. 
2. Loess Deposits of Montana. By Professor N. S. SHALER, Cambridge, 
Mass. 
3. Glacial Waters in the Finger Lake Region of New York. By Professor 
H. L. FAIRCHILD, Rochester, N. Y. 
4. The Stratification. of Glaciers, with lantern views. By H. F. REIp, 
Baltimore, Md. 
5. Evidences of Epeirogenic Movements Causing and Terminating the 
Ice Age. By WARREN UPHAM, St. Paul, Minn. 
6. Clayey Bands of the Glacial Delta of the Cuyahoga River at Cleve- 
land, O., compared with those in the Implement-bearing Deposits of the 
Glacial Delta at Trenton, N. J., with lantern views. By Professor G. FRED- 
ERICK WRIGHT, Oberlin, O. 
7. The Middle Coal Measures of the Western Interior Coal Field. By 
H. FOSTER BAIN and A. T. LEONARD, Des Moines, Ia. 
8. The Principal Missourian Section. By CHARLES R. KEyeEs, Des 
Moines, la. 
g. Tourmaline and Tourmaline Schists from Belcher Hill, Jefferson 
county, Colo. By Horace B, Patton, Golden, Colo. 
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