146 Association of American Geologists and Naturalists. 



Art. XIV. — Third Annual Meeting of the Association of Amer- 

 ican Geologists and Naturalists.'* 



Monday, April 25th, 1842, 9 o'clock, A, M. — Association met 

 at Boston, pursuant to adjournment of last meeting. 



Dr. Morton (the chairman) not having arrived, Prof Locke 

 was called to the chair. Dr. C. T. Jackson, secretary. Mr. 

 Josiah D. Whitney and Mr. Moses B. Williams were appoint- 

 ed assistant secretaries. 



Letters were then read by the secretary from Messrs. W. W. 

 Mather, Robert Gilmore, H. H. Hayden, Baron Lederer, Francis 

 Markoe, Jr., R. Harlan. An extract from a letter received from 

 Dr. Douglas Houghton, was read by Prof Beck. It was then 



Resolved, That all those gentlemen, whether of this or any 

 other country, who are interested in geology and the allied branch- 

 es of science, and who may be present on this occasion, be invi- 

 ted to unite with the Association in its deliberations. 



A letter being read by the secretary from Prof. Silliman, sta- 

 ting his readiness to comply with the wishes of the Association, 

 either to deliver his address before the Association alone or before 

 the public : — It was 



Resolved, That the address of Prof. Silliman be delivered to 

 the Association in presence of the public. 



Resolved, That the local committee be authorized to make all 

 necessary arrangements for the accommodation of the audience 

 during the delivery of this address. 



Resolved, That any gentleman requesting permission to read 

 a paper, on condition that it be returned to him without an ab- 

 stract of its contents having been entered on the minutes, may 

 have the privilege, on merely allowing its title to be recorded. 



* As a rule of the Association excludes mere oral remarks from the records on 

 account of the difficulty of reporting them correctly, but sanctions the subsequent 

 communication of them by their authors, and as these minutes were thus fur- 

 nished by some gentlemen and not by others, this will account for the very dis- 

 proportionate space occupied by the remarks of different individuals, as published 

 in the annexed abstract of the proceedings. Many valuable observations have 

 thus been lost which there is much occasion to regret, and particularly those of 

 Mr. Lyell, of which no minutes were communicated, although the Association 

 listened to him with much satisfaction during the several periods when he favored 

 them with his views. 



