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 Proceedings of the Fifth Summer Meeting, held at Madison, August 15 and 16, 



1893 ; H. L. Fairchild, Secretarij 1 



Session of Tuesday Morning, August 15 1 



Election of Fellows 2 



The Study of fossil Plants ; by Sir J. William Dawson 2 



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



by C. R. 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 Warren Uphani. 



Frank Eeverett and W J JMcGee] ; by G. F. AYrtght 16 



Sei -io jf Tuesday Evening, August 15 18 



Session of Wednesday Morning, August 16 18 



Terrestrial Submergence Southeast of the American Continent [ab- 

 stract] ; by J. W. Spencer 19 



Session of Wednesday Afternoon, August 16 23 



Cenozoic History of eastern Virginia and INIaryland [discussion by 

 W J Mc(Tee, J. A. Holmes and R. D. Salisbury] ; by N. H. Dar- 



TON 24 



Wisconsin lead and zinc Deposits ; by W. P. Blake 25 



Geology of the sand-hill Country of tlie Carolinas [abstract] ; by J. 



A. EfoLMES 33 



Glaciation of the White Mountains ; ))y C. II. Hitchcock 35 



Register of the INladison :\Ieeting, 1893 38 



Origin of the Pennsylvania Anthracite ; by J. J. Stevenson 39 



Evidences of the Derivation of the Kames, Eskers and Moraines of the North 



American Ice-sheet chiefly from its englacial Drift ; by Warren Upham. ... 71 

 The Succession of Pleistocene Formations in the ^lississippi and Nelson River 



Basins ; by Wahuen Uitiam 87 



Some recent Discussions in CJeology ; Animal Address by the President, Sir J. 



William Dawsox 101 



Geological Notes on some of the Coasts and Islands of Bering Sea and Vicinity ; 



by G. :M. Dawson 117 



Cenozoic Geology along the Apalachicola River; by W. H. Dall and J. 



Stanley-Brown 147 



Paleozoic Overlaps in Montgomery and Pulaski Counties, Virginia ; by M. R. 



Camprell 171 



Paleozoic intra- formational Conglomerates ; by C. D. Walcott 191 



Pleistocene Distortions of the Atlantic Seacoast ; by N. S. Shaler 199 



Relation of IMountain-growth to Formation of Continents ; by N. S. Shaler . . 203 



Phenomena of Beach and Dune-sands ; by N. S. Shalek 207 



Gabbros on the western Shore of Lake Champlain ; by J. F. Kemp 213 



Intrusive Sandstone Dikes in Granite ; by Whitman Cross 225 



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