NA TIONA L GEOGRA PHIV SOCIETY 191 



" Tlie Eaitliqiuvkes of Iceland in 1896," by Mr John R. Newby ; " Pliysi- 

 cal Cieography of Nortlieast Lancashire," by Mr Herljert Boltoii. 



The Technological Qnarterhj for .Ahirch contains, aiiionjr otlier impers an 

 interesting article on "The .ScientiHc Work of the Boston Party ..n't he 

 Sixth Teary Expedition to Greenland," by Mr (t. K. Putnam. " Besides 

 giving a narrative of tlie expedition, this article contains a Huiiiniarv .^ 

 the Magnetic and Pendulum Observations. 



The Sierra C'lnh Ihilldin for May opens with an article on " The Conifers 

 of the Pacific Sloi)e." by Mr John G. Lemmon. An entertaining story is 

 contributed by Helen M. Gonipertz, entitled "Up and Down lini.bs 

 Creek," and ]\Ir Bolton Coit Brdwn continues his " Wanderin-r^ in the 

 High Sierra." 



The Joimial of Geologi/ for February-March contains an article by Prof 

 R. D. Salisbury on the " Drift Phenomena in the Vicinity of Devils Lake 

 and Baraboo, Wisconsin," descril)ing the formation .>f tlie strange glacial 

 deposits of that region. The same journal for April-May continues the 

 " Glacial Studies in Greenland " of Prof. T. C. Chamljerhn. 



The Journal of the Tyneside Geographical Societij for May devotes iialf it.s 

 space to Nansen's explorations. For the rest it contains a narrative of a 

 journey in Benin by James Pinnock and T. B. Auchterlunie, and .Num- 

 maries of lectures delivered before the society. 



H. i\. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 

 SOCIETY, SESSION i896-'97 



Special Meeting, May 7, 1897. — President Hubbard in the chair. Mr 

 Walter Dwight Wilcox read a paper, with lantern illustrations from origi- 

 nal photographs, on Scenery and Camp Life in tiie Canadian Rockies. 



Annual Meeting, May H, 1897. — President Hubbard in the chair. The 

 Treasurer read a progress report on the condition of the Society's finances, 

 postponing the presentation of a complete report until the close of the 

 fiscal year. A committee, consisting of Messrs W. A. De Caindry, H. C. 

 Rizer, and S. A. Aplin, Jr., was appointed to audit the Treasurer's accounts. 

 Mr Marcus Baker, Col. H. F. Bl.junt, Lieut. E. Hayden, U. S. N., Dr C. 

 Hart Merriam, and Prof W. B. Powell were reelected nuMubers of the 

 Board of Managers, and Mr Frederick V. Coville, Botanist of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, was elected in place of Mr J. B. Wight, whose 

 newly assumed duties as a Commissioner for the District of Columbia 

 l)revented him from offering himself for reelection. Tiie meeting ad- 

 journed until Friday, June 11, 1807. 



Special Meeting, May SI, i<?57.— President Hultbard in the chair. The 

 meeting was devoted to the following papers in connection witli the ap- 

 proaching excursion to Mana.ssas Gap: The Blue Ridge and Piedmont 

 Plateau, Prof W J McCiee ; Manassas to Manassas Gap, a Chapter of War 

 History, Major Jed Hotchkiss. 



