BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 

 Vol. 5, pp. 1-38, PL. 1 November 7, 1893 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH SUMMER MEETING, HELD 

 AT MADISON, AUGUST 15 AND 16, 1893 



H. L. Fairchild, Secretary 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Session of Tuesday Morning, August 15 1 



Election of Fellows 2 



The Study of fossil Plants ; by Sir J, William Dawson 3 



The Succession in the Marquette Iron District of Michigan [abstract] ; by 



C. P. Van Hise 5 



Session of Tuesday Afternoon, August 15 7 



Limits of the glaciated Area in New Jersey ; by A. A. "Wright 7 



South Mountain Glaciation ; by E. H. Williams, Jr 13 



Extramorainic Drift in New Jersey [discussion by T. C. Chamberlin, War- 

 ren Upham, Frank Leverett and W J McGee] ; by G. F. Wright 16 



Session of Tuesday Evening, August 15 18 



Session of AVednesday Morning, August 16 18 



Terrestrial Submergence Southeast of the American Continent [abstract] ; 



by J. W. Spencer 19 



Session of Wednesday Afternoon, August 16 23 



Cenozoic History of eastern Virginia and Maryland [discussion by W J 



McGee, J. A. Holmes and R. D. Salisbury] ; by N. H. Darton 24 



Wisconsin Lead and Zinc Deposits ; by AV. P. Blake 25 



Geology of the Sand-hill Country of the Carolinas [abstract] ; by J. A. 



Holmes .' 33 



Glaciation of the White ]Mountains, New Hampshire ; by C. H, Hitchcock 35 



Register of the Madison Meeting, 1893 38 



Session of Tuesday Morning, August 15 



The Society met at 10 o'clock a m, in the geological lecture-room, 

 Science Hall, University of Wisconsin ; First Vice-President T. C. Cham- 

 berlin in the chair. 



Professor C. R. Van Hise welcomed the Society to the city of Madison 

 and to the University of Wisconsin. In acknowledgment of this wel- 

 come response was made by the acting President. 



A communication from the President, Sir J. William Dawson, was 

 read, expressing regret at his enforced absence from the meeting of the 



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