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 Proceedings of the Eighth Summer Meeting, held at Buffalo. New York, August 



22, 1896 ; Herman Le Roy Fairchild, Secretary 1 



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. 



Hitchcock 3 



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 



Glacial flood deposits in Chenango valley ; by A. P. Brigftam 17 



Correlation of Erie-Huron beaches with outlets and moraines in southeastern 



Michigan ; by F. B. Taylor 31 



Diabase pitchstone and mud enclosures of the Triassic trap of New England ; 



by B. K. Emerson 59 



Sheetflood erosion ; by W J McGee 87 



Earth-crust movements and their causes ; Annual address by the President, 



Joseph Le Conte 113 



Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Laramie and related formations in Wyo- 

 ming ; by T. W. Stanton and F. H. Knowlton. 127 



AVeathering of micaceous gneiss in Albemarle county, Virginia; by G. P. 



Merrill 157 



The Leucite hills of Wyoming ; by J. F. Kemp 169 



Modified drift in Saint Paul, Minnesota ; by Warren Upham 183 



Unconformities of Marthas Vineyard and of Block island ; by J. B. Wood- 

 worth 197 



Solution of silica under atmospheric conditions ; by C. W. Hayes 213 



Erosion at baselevel ; by M. R. Campbell 221 



Gypsum deposits of Kansas ; by G. P. Grimsley 227 



Evidences of northeasterly differential rising of the land along Bell river; by 



Robert Bell : 241 



Former extension of Cornell glacier near the southern end of Melville bay ; by 



R. S. Tarr 251 



Lake Warren shorelines in western New York and the Geneva beach ; by 



H. L. Fairchild 269 



Old tracks of Erian drainage in western New York ; by G. K. Gilbert 285 



Age of the lower coals of Henry county ; by David White 287 



Nature, structure, and phytogeny of Daemonelix ; by E. H. Barbour. 305 



Upper Cretaceous formations of New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland; by 



W. B. Clark, with'the collaboration of R. M. Bagg and G. B. Shattuck. . 315 

 Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting, held at Washington, December 29, 

 30, and 31, 1896 ; Herman Le Roy Fairchild, Secretary 359 



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