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front of the Lehigli and Delaware Water-Gaps, as far south 

 as AUentown, over the South Mountain, and across the Trias 

 plain, to the mouth of the Schuylkill. 



Mr. E. K. Price suggested the possihility of iceberg 

 carriage, and should prefer that exj^lanation. 



Dr. LeConte said that the agencies were allied. 



Mr. Lesley replied that if the iceberg was broken from 

 the glacier as it passed through the gaps, it is hard to see 

 how it could pass the barrier of the South Mountain, unless 

 it was very small and followed substantially the present 

 river valleys. But it was too recent a discovery to justify 

 much discussion. 



Pending nominations 781, 783 to 790 were read, discussed 

 and balloted for. 



Pending nomination 791 was again read. 



After scrutiny of the ballot boxes the following gentle- 

 men were declared duly elected members of the Society : 



Dr. Stephen Smith, of New York, President of the Ameri- 

 can Public Health Association. 



Mr. William Blasius, of Philadelphia. 



Mr. Gideon E. Moore, of Jersey City, Chemist of the Pas- 

 saic Zinc Works. 



Mr. Furman Sheppard, District Attorney for the City of 

 Philadelphia. 



Mr. Russell Thayer, Jr., Superintendent of the Fairmount 

 Park, Philadelphia. 



Mr. G. Clark Maxwell, F.R.S., Professor of Experimental 

 Phj'sics, Cambridge, England. 



Mr. Charles E. Hall, of Philadelphia, Palaeontological 

 Assistant of the Second Geological Survey. 



Mr. John F. Carll, of Pleasantville. Venango County, Pa., 

 Assistant on the Second Geological Survey. 



Mr. Andrew Sherwood, of Mansfield, Tioga County, Pa., 

 Assistant on the Second Geological Survey. 



And the meeting was adjourned. 



