JANI7AEY 10, 1896.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Resume of General Stratigrapkic Relations in 

 the Atlantic Coastal Plain from New Jersey to 

 South Carolina. N. H. Daeton, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



A series of sections were exhibited to 

 show the distribution and variations of the 

 principal coastal plain formations, and there 

 were pointed out some bearings of the fea- 

 tures on the geologic history. The data are 

 based largely on the author's studies, but 

 they also combine a resume of some obser- 

 vations of others. 



Both these papers were read together and 

 were illustrated by figured geological sec- 

 tions based on the recently acquired re- 

 cords of artesian wells. There were five, 

 viz : Philadelphia to Wildwood, N. J. ; 

 Washington to Crisfield, Md. ; Eichmond 

 to Norfolk ; Orangeburg to Charleston ; 

 ALkin to Beaufort, S. C. They illustrated 

 the relations of the granitic Archean rocks 

 to the Jurassic Potomac formation, the 

 Cretaceous Magothy and Sevei-n, the Eocene 

 Pamunkey and the Miocene Chesapeake. 

 Paleontologic details would have made 

 the first paper clearer. An interesting 

 and important point is the discoverj'^ of 

 Newark sandstone in a deep well at Flor- 

 ence, S. C.,.far south of our previously re- 

 corded locations. D. W. Langdon, in dis- 

 cussion, raised the paleontologic point re- 

 ferred to above. 



The last paper read was by Arthur Keith, 

 'Some Stages of Appalachian Erosion.' The 

 paper was a general review of the drain- 

 age systems of the area in question, and of 

 the factors which had contributed to develop 

 ■its present topography. 



C. H. Hitchcock then presented a reso- 

 lution of thanks to the local committee and 

 to the authorities of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania for their hospitality and many cour- 

 tesies. It was unanimously passed and then 

 the eighth annual meeting of the Society ad- 

 journed. 



The following papers, although an- 



nounced in the program, were not read either 

 because their authors were absent from the 

 meeting, or because they were not present 

 when the papers were reached in regular 

 order : 



17ie Natchez Formations. T. C. Chambeelin. 



Disintegration and Decomposition of Diabase 

 at Medford, Mass. Geoege P. Meeeill, 

 Washington D. C. 



On the Geographic Relations of the Granites 

 and Porphyries in the Eastern Part of the 

 Ozarhs. Chaeles E.. Keyes, Jefierson 

 City, Mo. 



The Cerrillos Coal Field of New Mexico. John 

 J. Stevenson, New York, N. Y. 



Pre-glacial and Post-glacial Channels of the 

 Cuyahoga and Rocky Rivers. Waeeen 

 Upham, St. Paul, Minn. 



J. F. Kemp. 



Columbia College. 



AMERICAN MORPHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Of the three sessions held by the Mor- 

 phological Society the first was mainly de- 

 voted to business questions, of which the 

 most important related to the plan of af- 

 filiation with the Society of Naturalists 

 brought forward at the meeting of 1894. 

 This plan was rejected on the ground that 

 most of the other societies had taken action 

 adverse to it. It was, however, recom- 

 mended that cooperative action by all the 

 societies should be urged in order to assure 

 a common place and time of meeting. A 

 resolution was adopted endorsing the action 

 of the Smithsonian Institution in maintain- 

 ing an American table at the Zo51ogical 

 Station at Naples, and expressing the earn- 

 est hope of the Society that the table may 

 be continued in order that the unrivalled 

 facilities of the Station may be open to 

 American investigators in the future as in 

 the past. 



