BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 



Vol. 10, pp. 1-20 January 28, i899 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE TENTH SUMMER MEETING, HELD AT 

 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, AUGUST 23, 1898 



Herman Le Roy Fairchild, Secretary 



CONTENTS 



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Session of Tuesday, August 23 1 



Some features of the Staten Island drift, New York [abstract] ; by Arthur 



Hollick 2 



Stratification of glaciers [abstract] ; by H. F. Eeid 4 



Evidences of epeirogenic movements causing and terminating the Ice Age ; 



by Warren Upham 5 



Middle Coal Measures of the western interior coal fields [abstract] ; by 



H. Foster Bain and A. G. Leonard 10 



Note on a method of stream capture ; by A. C. Lane 12 



Magmatic differentiation in rocks of the copper-bearing series [abstract] ; 



by A. C. Lane , 15 



Classification of coastal forms [abstract] ; by F. P. Gulliver , 18 



Note on Monadnock [abstract] ; by F. P. Gulliver 19 



Register of the Boston meeting 20 



Session of Tuesday, August 23 



The Society w^as called to order at 10.30 o'clock a m, in the Lecture 

 Hall of the Boston Society of Natural History. In the absence of Presi- 

 dent Stevenson, the First Vice-President, Professor B. K. Emerson, pre- 

 sided throughout the meeting. By mutual arrangement the geological 

 section (Section E) of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science had temporarily given the use of its time and meeting place to 

 this session of the Geological Society. 



Announcement was made of the death of Dr James Hall, the first 

 President of the Society, and Vice-President Emerson spoke of the life 

 and work of Doctor Hall and of the recognition of his labors and the 

 honors paid him during his later years in both America and Europe. 

 Remarks were also made by Professor H. L. Fairchild, speaking in behalf 

 of Section E of the American Association and referring especially to the 

 fact of Doctor Hall being the last representative of the first generation 



I— Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. 10, 1898 (1) 



