30 PROCEEDINGS OF THE PRINCETON MEETING 



to this a committee had been apix)iiited with instrnctious to confer with Major 

 J, W. Powell to ascertain what encouragement could be afforded by him in 

 the support of a geological magazine. These special committees, however, 

 accomplished nothing, except to delay the project and to discourage those who 

 were in favor of the proposed society ; and the friends of the new movement 

 became very much disheartened by the expression of unfavorable views at 

 Minneapolis. These adverse opinions were stated by several of the oldest and 

 most prominent geologists, and they served to dampen the ambition of those 

 who, though younger, had been zealously promoting the proposition. 



Four years later various causes led some of these opponents to change their 

 minds and to solicit a continuation of the plan that had been proposed, and 

 ill particular the speaker recalls such correspondence with Dr. J. S. Newberry. 



The chairman and the secretary of the moribund organization, Winchell and 

 Hitchcock, convinced that nothing would be done by other parties, under 

 implied instructions and responsibility from the meeting at Minneapolis, by 

 virtue of their office sent out a call to meet at Cleveland, Ohio, in connection 

 with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1888. The 

 call, as issued, pro\'lded that the new societj^ should be composed only of 

 members of Section E of the American Association. This was in consequence 

 of fear, expressed by some of the older geologists, that such an organization 

 would clash seriously with the Association ; and their love for the Association, 

 with which they had been connected actively for many years, was greater than 

 for any new geological organization, which appeared to them like a phantom 

 which would be likely to have only an ephemeral existence. 



Meanwhile several geologists, depending largely on the action of the Mon- 

 treal meeting and on the frequently stated advice of individual geologists, 

 imwilling to delay longer the issuance of a geological magazine, boldly took 

 the initiative and established the American Geologist, the first number appear- 

 ing January, 1888. The call for the Cleveland meeting appeared in the "Geolo- 

 gist" for June, 1888. 



It is enough to say, further, that this call met a cordial reception and that 

 at Cleveland xevy much renewed interest was evident. Committees were 

 appointed to prepare a constitution, and this constitution was adopted at a 

 meeting held at Ithaca, New York, in December, 1888, the present meeting 

 being the 25th anniversary of its adoption. 



The Society proceeded, at the conclusion of Mr. Stanley-Brown's ad- 

 dress, to the consideration of scientific papers. 



TITLES AND ABSTRACTS OF PAPEES PRESENTED IN GENERAL SESSION AND 

 DISCUSSIONS THEREON 



MECHANICS OF FORMATION OF ARCUATE MOUNTAINS 

 BY W. H. HOBBS 



(Ahstract) 



The structure of arcuate mountains was discussed both In respect to the 

 plan of arrangement and the vertical cross-sections, the Alps being taken as a 



