178 American Geological Society. 



12. American Geological Society. 



The annual meeting was held in the Cabinet of Yale Col- 

 lege, on the evening of September 8, when the following 

 persons were elected to the offices alSxed to their names. 



William Maclure, Esq. President. 



George Gibbs. ") 



Benjamin Silliman, | 

 Parker Cleaveland, ] 



Denison Olmsted, y Vice-Presidents. 



John VV. Webster, f 



Robert Gilmour, 



Robert Hare, 



Edward Hitchcock, 



Alfred S. Monson, Recording Secretary. 



J. W. Webster, ) 

 C. Hooker, > 



John Griscom, ) 



Corresponding Secretaries. 



S J. Andrews, Curator. 

 C. A. Goodrich, Treasurer. 



B. Silliman, "^ 



G Gibbs, | 



P Cleaveland, V Committee of JVominatio7i. 



R Hare, ] 



Eli Ives, J 



George Gibbs, "^ 



t" ' T» ' ?■ Committee of Puhlication. 



James Pierce, j -^ 



B. Silliman, J 



A paper was read on the gold of North Carolina,* by 

 Professor Denison Olmsted, of the university of North 

 Carolina at Chapel H\ll. 



Large additions havivig been made (as heretofore ac- 

 knowledged in this Journal) to the Cabinet of the Society, 

 since the former annual meeting — the specimens as ar- 



* Printed in the present number of this Journal, but, by inadver tenet/, 

 omitted to be credited to the Geological Society. 



