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cally nothing remained of it, — my husband was fully prepared to 

 accept the conclusions to which you had been led for that par- 

 ticular section of the country, as you will see from the notes ap- 

 pended to his English work. 



In Ohio a set of conditions occur wholly unlike anything which 

 tny husband himself had seen in his glacial work, and making the 

 allowance for a different glacial behavior, such as these conditions 

 demanded, he felt that your own opinion with regard to them 

 was the most logical he could reach at that time. In England, 

 Wales, and Ireland a terminal moraine ever3rwhere bounded the 

 absolute ends of the separate or coalescing tongues of ice, except, 

 as I have stated, where the ice had passed off to sea, or the mo- 

 raine deposits had been disturbed by contemporary or subsequent 

 water action, of which, in either case, there was always more or 

 less distinct evidence. The moraine lines mentioned in your paper 

 are all given in full in my husband's sketch of " The Terminal 

 Moraines of the Great Glaciers of England," published for the 

 Meeting of the British Association in Manchester in September, 

 1887; and his later opinions as to the origin of the " fringe " will 

 be found in a similar article on " Some Great Extra-Morainic 

 Xakes in England and North America at the Time of Maximum 

 Giaciation." 



My husband distinctly held that the maximum submergence in 

 the West of England had attained a depth of from 450 to 500 feet, 

 but had not reached that of 1,000 feet or more, as claimed by 

 some of the leading British geologists. 



Another point to be emphasized is that in my husband's mind a 

 terminal moraine showed the halting-place of the solid ice only 

 at the time of its greatest extension, and did not define or limit 

 the irregular drift-covered areas in many instances found lying 

 beyond it, which were due to the action of drainage-streams, ice- 

 bergs or the deposits in temporary lakes. 



As I have elsewhere stated, the first and only instance my hus- 

 band ever saw which led him to believe in the existence of a 

 large ice-stream (whether local or otherwise remains to be deter- 

 mined), between which and the glacial epoch as vast an interval 

 of time had elapsed as that which separates the glacial period 

 from the present day, was found in the deposits on Frankley 

 Hill, near Birmingham. It was his intention, had he remained in 

 this world, to make a thorough re-examination of all England, lest 

 similar deposits had elsewhere escaped his notice; but he never at 

 any time associated the Frankley Hill till and gravel with the 

 " fringe" of the glacial period, from which it was wholly distinct. 



Permit me to say in closing that the unlimited courtesy and 

 generosity shown me by Dr. Crosskey and many others among 

 the English geologists — some of whom are enth'ely opposed to my 

 husband's conclusions— are beyond all praise and any acknowl- 

 edgment which it is in my power to give. If, when I have in 

 future to turn to my own countrymen for aid in finishing my 

 husband's MSS. relating to the geology of the New World, I ex- 

 perience even a fraction of the kindness which has surrounded 

 me in England , I shall have nothing left to desire. 



CALENDAR OF SOCIETIES. 



Philosophical Society, Washington. 



May 21. — H. A. Hazen, Scientific Bal- 

 looning ; Alexander S. Christie, The Method 

 Employed to Find the Latitude-Variation 

 Tide. 



Publications Received at Editor's Office. 



Abbott, Ltman. The Evolution of Christianity. 



Boston, Houghton, MifSin & Co, 18°. 266 p. 



81.25. 

 Bailey, L. H. Crocs-Breeding and Hybridiging. 



New York, Eural Pub. Co. 13°, paper. 44 p. 



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Present. New York, Longmans, Green & Co. 



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Societas Entomologica. 



International Entomological Society, Zu- 



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Annual fee, ten francs. 



The Journal of the Society appears twice a 

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