292 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



Tuscaloosa, Ala., performing the duties of secretary. The papers handed in 

 were : 



The geological age, character and origin of the gypsum beds of Cayuga 

 County, N. Y., S. G. Williams. The correlation of the lower coal measures of 

 Ohio and Eastern Kentucky, Edward Orton. On a section of the strata of cre- 

 taceous and tertiary formations of Alabama, Eugene A. Smith and L.. C. John- 

 son. On some fish remains recently discovered in the silurian rocks of Pennsyl- 

 vania, E. W. Clayple. The horizons of petroleum and inflammable gas in Ohio, 

 Edward Orton. A review of the geology of Delaware, results of a survey now 

 in progress, Frederick D. Chester. The salt-well at Humboldt, Minn., N. H. 

 Winchell. An attempt to determine the amount of chemical erosion taking place 

 in the limestone (calciferous to Trenton) valley of Centre County, Penn., and 

 hence applicable to similar regions throughout the Appalachian system, A. S. 

 Ewing. Deep-sea sounding in the Carribbean Sea, J. R. Bartlett, Navy Depart- 

 ment, Washington, D. C. On the relative level of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf 

 of Mexico, with remarks on the Gulf Stream and deep-sea temperatures, J. E. 

 Hilgard. Recent improvement in apparatus and methods of sounding ocean 

 depths, Daniel Amnion. Notice of a new and important work on the origin of 

 the crystalline schists, by Dr. I. Lehman, George H. Williams. The Second 

 Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, Charles A. Ashburner. A brief account of 

 the remarkable explorations in Thibet, Mongolia and the frontiers of India and 

 China, receptly made by Kreshna, or A. K., a native surveyor, trained under' 

 the Trigonometrical Survey of India, with official map, Trelawney Saunders. 

 New identifications in Biblical Geography, based on the recent survey of Western 

 Palestine, made for the Palestine Exploration Fund, with the great map of the 

 survey, and the reduced map of the Old Testament, Apocrypha and Josephus, 

 derived therefrom, Trelawney Saunders. On the intimate relations of the Che- 

 mung and Waverly Groups in the northwestern portions of Pennsylvania and 

 southwestern part of New York, James Hall. On the Eurypteridae of the Devon- 

 ian and Carboniferous systems of the United States, with a supplementary note 

 on a species of Stylonurus, James Hall. British earthquakes and their seismic 

 relations, Richard Owen.' Sketch of life and scientific work of Dr. Arnold Guyot, 

 William Libbey, Jr. Geographic classifications, illustrated by a study of plains, 

 plateaus and their derivatives, W. M. Davis. On the ultimate results of converting 

 the basin of the Desert of Sahara into an inland lake, P. H. Vander Weyde. Note 

 on Cassiterite from King's Mountain, N. C, Charles W. Dabney, Jr. North 

 Carolina phosphates, Charles W. Dabney, Jr. Native antimony from York, 

 Prince William County, N. B., George F. Kunz. A great trap dyke across 

 southeastern Pennsylvania, H. Carvill Lewis. A study of one point in the 

 archaeanpalseozoic contact line in southeastern Pennsylvania, Persifor Frazer. 

 Geographical and physical conditions as modifying fossil faunas, H. S. Williams. 

 On some large and peculiar fossil fishes from Ohio and Indiana, J. S. Newberry, 

 On the geological survey of New Jersey, George H. Cook. The profile of 

 Nicaragua, geographical and commercial, Captain Bedford Pim, R. N. The 



