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A note on the protection of oil-tanks from lightning 

 stroke, by B, Howard Rand, M.D., was communicated 

 through Dr. Grreene. 



Extracts were read from letters of Harrison Wright, 

 Ph.D., respecting the Permian shells discovered in the highest 

 strata of the Will^sbarre anthracite basin by Dr. Charles 

 F. Ingham, and re*rred to by him in his forthcoming His- 

 tory of Luzerne coi^ty. 



The discovery by' Prof. Spencer, of King's College, Nova 

 Scotia, of a buried channel, following Grand river, deep 

 enough to permit the preglacial drainage from Northwest 

 Pennsylvania and Western New York to pass across Lake 

 Erie and pass round into the head of Lake Ontario, was de- 

 scribed by Mr. Lesley, and its importance insisted upon. 



A colored model of the preglacial channel of the Clarion 

 (Allegheny) river in Armstrong county, Penns^'lvania, was 

 exhibited. 



A colored MS. map of parts of Lee, Wise and Scott coun- 

 ties, Virginia, by Prof. J. J. Stevenson, was communicated 

 for the Proceedings. It continues (westward) and in part 

 corrects the colored geological map of Scott, Russell and 

 Tazewell counties, by J. P. Lesley, published in Volume X 

 of the Proceedings, 1872. 



A small map of Pennsylvania was exhibited, colored, to 

 show the progress of the Geological Survey since 1874. 



The report of the judges of the annual election was 

 read, declaring the following officers duly elected for the 

 ensuing year : 



President. 



Frederick Fraley. 



Vice- Presidents. 



Eli K Price, E. Otis Kendall, John L. LeConte. 



SecretarieB. 

 Pliny E. Chase, George F. Barker, Daniel G. Brinton, 



J. P. Lesley. 



Curators. 



C. M. Cresson, Henry Phillips, Jr. George H. Horn. 



