Editorial 



The thirteenth meeting of the Geological Society of America, 

 held in Albany, N. Y., was very satisfactory. The location was 

 sufficiently central to insure a good attendance, the hotel accom- 

 modations were excellent and convenient to the place of meet- 

 ing, and the number of papers was not more than could be read 

 and discussed within the time of the meeting. The local com- 

 mittee, Dr. F. J. H. Merrill and Dr. J. M. Clarke, are to be 

 congratulated on their hospitality and the success of their 

 arrangements. 



The postponement of President Dawson's address to the last 

 day of the meeting was regretted by those who were unable to 

 remain through the three days. It would seem advisable to 

 have the presidential address delivered on the second day of 

 the meeting, when there is the greatest number of members 

 present. 



The most notable feature of this meeting of the Geological 

 Society, in the city that is looked upon as the cradle of Ameri- 

 can geology, was the conspicuous absence of a suitable monu- 

 ment to the memory of those pioneers of geological science who 

 have opened a highway to stratigraphy through New York state, 

 and have made of the state a corner stone of the geological 

 structure of the whole country. Such a monument should take 

 the form of a building in which not only the names and records 

 of New York's venerated geologists may be inscribed and their 

 collections preserved, but where their labors may be carried for- 

 ward and from which inspiration and assistance may spread to 

 geological workers throughout the state. In a state less than 

 New York the absence of such a monument might pass unno- 

 ticed. 



J. P. I. 

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