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after the drive is completed. Edinburgh, Quebec, and SterHng 

 were cited as exhibiting rocky heights whose grandeur was en- 

 hanced by the fringe of manufactories at their base, such build- 

 ings lending a basis to the eye by which to measure the pro- 

 portions of the cliffs. Cliff defacement is also in progress upon 

 the New York Palisades, where are the grandest wooded slopes 

 and highest peaks. There is no need of encroachment on the 

 cliffs in either State, for there are many other places where as 

 good road material exists in equally great quantities, and can be 

 mined at practically the same expense. 



" Whatever is done should be done at once, or else we shall 

 have lost a great part of the scenery which we wish to preserve, 

 and this must be done without destroying, or coming in contact 

 with the large public and priv^ate business interests that are in- 

 volved." 



In discussion Mr. Kunz voiced the sentiment that the oppo- 

 sition to legislation arose more with officials at Trenton than 

 with residents of southern New Jersey, and felt that smoke and 

 other nuisances from factory settlements along the cliff would 

 be seriously detrimental. Were a restricted park created, the 

 value of residential property would in a few years benefit the 

 State many times over the value of the riparian grants. Rail- 

 road tunnels might be permitted a distance of a few miles apart, 

 with commercial villages at their water front terminals. The 

 stone from such tunnels would defray the cost of quarrying. 



Dr. Levison suggested that the removal of portions of the 

 talus would increase the apparent height of the cliffs, if blasting 

 of the latter could be prevented. Dr. Hovey described the 

 similar trap formations of Connecticut. 



The Secretary announced that this section and the Biological 

 section had been requested to nominate candidates before April 

 20th, for the grant of the Newberry Research Fund, the grant 

 this year being restricted to those working in botany and geol- 

 ogy. Authority was granted to the chairman and secretary of 

 the section to make such nominations to the Council. 



The Chairman announced the course of lectures on " The 



