606 RECORD OF MEETINGS OF THE 



SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 



November 6, 1905. 



Section met at 8.30 p.m., Vice-President Hovey presiding. 



The minutes of the last meeting of the Section were read and 

 approved. 



The following sectional officers were nominated for the year 

 1906: 



Vice-President and Chairman of Section, E. O. Hovey. 



Secretary of Section, A. W. Grabau. 



The following program was then offered : 

 J. F. Kemp, Recent Interesting Discovery of Human 

 Implements in an Abandoned River Chan- 

 nel in Southern Oregon. 

 J. J. Stevenson, A Bit of Quaternary Geology. 

 A. A. Julien, Notes on the Glaciation of Manhattan 

 Island. 



The papers were briefly discussed. 



Dr. George F. Kunz announced the finding of pyrope and 

 serpentine in the tunnel under New York Harbor. These 

 indicated the presence of a peridotite dyke. 



Summary of Papers. 



During July and August, 1905, Professor Kemp was in the 

 field in southern Oregon under the direction of Dr. David T. 

 Day, chief of the Division of Mineral Statistics of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey. The work assigned was the collection of 

 black sands and crude gravels from the placer mines of this 

 section for the experimental concentrating plant of the Survey 

 at the Portland exposition. While visiting Waldo, Oregon, 

 the following occurrence of human implements in the gravels 

 of the Deep Gravel Mining Co. was met, and, with the permis- 

 sion of the Director of the Survey, is herewith communicated. 



Waldo is situated on the stage line from Grant's Pass on the 

 Southern Pacific R. R., 100 miles south of west from Crescent 

 City on the coast in California, and is forty miles from Grant's 

 Pass. It is in Josephine County, a few miles north of the Cali- 

 fornia line. 



