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part ; and (2) the determination of the Cretaceous age of other 

 sandstones and shales further down the river in the vicinity of 

 Nulato. At one locahty, a unique fossil flora was found, to- 

 tally different from any heretofore known in America, consist- 

 ing of Cycads of Lower Cretaceous types, mixed with Angio- 

 sperms belonging to what have always been considered Upper 

 Cretaceous types. 



Only a preliminary study has been made of the material col- 

 lected, which will eventually be carefully examined and reported 

 upon for the United States Geological Survey. 



The paper was illustrated with about seventy lantern slides, 

 showing the principal topographic and geologic features of the 

 route. 



Dr. Hovey showed twelve lantern slides illustrating the Grand 

 Soufriere of Guadeloupe, and stated that the field evidence indi- 

 cated that the present active cone of this volcano was closely 

 analogous to the new cone and spine of Mont Pele, Martinique ; 

 that is to say that it had been pushed up bodily into its present 

 position, or had welled up through the conduit in such a viscous 

 condition that contact with the atmosphere rendered it too rigid 

 to flow. At the base of the cone, on the north, there is a 

 gently rising flat area, apparently the segment of a circle, indi- 

 cating the position of a part of the rim of a crater in existence 

 before the construction of the present cone. 



The map shown in connection with the paper was prepared 

 by M. Leon Le Boucher for the Club des Montagnards of 

 Guadeloupe. This Club has recently celebrated the first anni- 

 versary of its founding, and its report shows that it has done a 

 great deal in a short time toward the opening up of roads and 

 paths to the Soufriere, making the highest and one of the most 

 interesting mountains of the Lesser Antilles readily accessible to 

 visitors. 



Sixty members and visitors were present at the meeting of 

 the Section. Edmund Otis Hovf.y, 



Secretary. 



