AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. 389 



The Secretary announced proposed changes in the Constitution as 

 follows : 



To insert in Article IV, Section 1, the words "an Editor," thereby 

 making the Editor an ex-officio member of the Council; also revising 

 Article TV, Section 6, so that it shall read : " 6. The Editor shall super- 

 vise all matters connected with the publications of the transactions of 

 the Society, under the direction of the Council." 



Mr S. F. Emmons announced that the Fellows were invited to make 

 an inspection of the new Congressional Library building at 9 o'clock 

 Friday morning ; also that the customary subscription dinner would be 

 held at the Hotel Raleigh this evening. 



After some announcements by the Secretary regarding the business of 

 the meeting, the scientific program was resumed, and the first paper 

 read was — 



NOTES ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE CRANBERRY DISTRICT IN NORTH 



CAROLINA 



BY ARTHUR KEITH 



A brief abstract is published in Science, volume* v, January 15, 1897, 

 page 86. 



The second paper was — 



NOTE ON THE STRATIGRAPHY OF CERTAIN HOMOGENEOUS ROCKS 



BY C. H. HITCHCOCK 



[Abstract] 



Because of the attention recently given to studies of foliation and cleavage in 

 homogeneous rocks I have searched anew for phenomena illustrative of them in 

 the Connecticut valley with some success. In the report upon the geology of Ver- 

 mont (1801) I described the admirable illustrations of original and superinduced 

 planes in the " Talcose conglomerate" of Richmond and Fairfax (pages 389, 390). 

 This terra ne seems to correspond with what Mr C. L. Whittle has called the " Men- 

 don series,"* in which the distinctions between two sets of planes is very obvious. 



I have 'now found both cleavage and stratification planes in three ranges of 

 homogeneous rocks farther east, where they have not been before observed. In 

 the argillite extending southwardly from lake Memphremagog past Montpelier 

 these different planes appear, notably in the slate quarries of Northfield. Farther 

 east equally satisfactory illustrations occur in Thetford and vicinity. The strata 

 planes dip westerly at a small angle, while the cleavage dips 50 degrees easterly. 



Journal of Geology, vol. ii, p. 396. 



