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Notes on the Albany Meeting of the 



Geological Society of America, 



Held December, 1900. 



The thirteenth Winter meeting of the Geological 

 Society of America was held in the city of Albany, IST.Y., 

 during the 27th, 28th and 29th days of December, 1900, 

 under the Presidency of Dr. G M. Dawson, C.MG., F.E.S., 

 etc.. Director of the Geological Survey of Canada. The 

 following Canadian geologists were present : — Dr. G. M. 

 Dawson, Dr. Eobert Bell, Mr. Wm. Mclnnes, B.A., and 

 the writer, from Ottawa; Prof. A. P. Culeman, Toronto; 

 Prof. F. D. Adams and Mr. 0. E. LeRoy, M.A., of Montreal. 



The papers read and the discussions which they elicited 

 proved to be unusually interesting, so that the meeting 

 can well be said to have been one of the most successful held 

 The presidential address was not delivered until Saturday 

 morning, December 29th, when Dr. Dawson gave a com- 

 prehensive synopsis of the Geology of British Columbia, in 

 which he discussed the relations and genesis of the various 

 geological formations constituting the Laramie Geosyn- 

 cline to the east of the Archsean axis, as well as of those 

 on the west side of the same axis constituting the Western 

 or Pacific Geosyncline. 



The following are abstracts of some of the papers pre- 

 sented and read by Canadian geologists, bearing upon the 

 Geology of the Dominion. These abstracts prepared by 

 the various authors give an excellent summary of the 

 scope of each paper. A few additional notes deemed of 

 interest are also inserted by the writer. 



1. " Experimental Work on the Floto of Bocks recently 



