BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 

 Vol. 8, pp. 1-16 December 31, 1896 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE EIGHTH SUMMER MEETING, HELD 

 AT BUFFALO, NEW YORK, AUGUST 22, 1896 



Herman Le Roy Fairchild, Secretary 

 CONTENTS 



Page 



Session of Saturday, August 22 1 



Election of Fellows .... 1 



Report of committee on Mount Rainier Forest Reserve 2 



Secretary's report on geological excursions 2 



Remarks on the petrographic excursion ; by W. N. Rice and C. H. Hitch- 



cock 



Remarks on the Pleistocene excursion ; by W. H. Niles 5 



Cuyahoga preglacial gorge in Cleveland, Ohio ; by Warren Upham 7 



Origin of conglomerates of western Indiana [abstract] ; by T. C. Hopkins. 14 



Register of the Buffalo meeting 16 



Session of Saturday, August 22 



The Society was called to order at 8 o'clock p m in the lecture-hall of 

 the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, in the Library building, the 

 President, Professor Joseph Le Conte, in the chair. 



After introductory remarks the President stated that, in accordance 

 with the decision of the Council and the announcement of the Secretary, 

 the meeting was to be limited to a single session for transaction of ad- 

 ministrative business and the reading of papers by title. The papers so 

 read by title would be presented and discussed before the Section of 

 Geology of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 

 during the subsequent week. 



ELECTION OF FELLOWS 



The Secretary announced the result of the balloting for Fellows, as 

 canvassed by the Council, as follows : 



Fellows Elected. 



Jose Guadalupe Aguilera, Escuela N. de Ingenieros, Mexico, D. F. Director of 



the Institute Geologico de Mexico. 

 Philip Argall, Denver, Colorado. Mining engineer. 



I— Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. 8, 1896. (1) 



