TITLES OF PAPERS. 23 



The following paper was then read : 



EVIDENCES OF THE DERIVATION OF THE KAMES, ESKERS AND MORAINES OF 

 THE NORTH AMERICAN ICE-SHEET CHIEFLY FROM ITS ENGLACIAL DRIFT 



BY WARREN UPHAM 



This paper is printed in succeeding pages of this volume, and the 

 discussion by T. C. Chamberlin, Frank Leverett and H. F. Reid accom- 

 panies it. 



The Acting President made some announcements and declared the 

 meeting adjourned for the noon recess. 



Session of Wednesday Afternoon, August 16 



Vice-President Stevenson in the chair. Meeting called to order at 2 

 o'clock. 



The Editor, Mr J. Stanley-Brown, stated that the undistributed bro- 

 chures of volume 4 were printed and ready for mailing, except the pro- 

 ceedings of the Ottawa meeting which were in print and nearly ready 

 for the members. 



Upon motion of Professor I. C. Russell, it was voted that the special 

 committee on the communication from the Alpine Club be increased by 

 adding to the committee H. F. Reid and R. D. Salisbury. 



It was moved by Professor I. C. Russell, and voted, that a committee 

 of three be appointed to take into consideration the matter of making 

 the Mount Ranier Pacific Forest Reserve a national reserve, and the 

 committee was given power to memorialize Congress, or take other 

 measures as they deemed advisable. The following Fellows were elected 

 as such committee : David T. Day, S. F. Emmons and Bailey Willis. 



The first paper of the afternoon session was entitled : 



the succession of pleistocene formations in the MISSISSIPPI and 



NELSON RIVER BASINS > 



BY WARREN UPHAM 



This paper is printed in the succeeding pages of this volume, and the 

 discussion by W J McGee, J. W. Spencer, R. D. Salisbury and T. C. 

 Chamberlin accompanies it. 



