BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES E. MILLS 517 



Sao Cyriaco gold mines, province of Minas Geraes, Brazil. (A report made to 

 Messrs Riedel, Rader & Co., dated Rio de Janeiro, December 18, 1875, 8vo, 

 20 pp., 2 maps, and illustrations.) Appendix A, pp. 14-18, is upon geological 

 details (n. d. or loc). 



Geological report on the mine La Motte estate, the property of Rowland Hazard, 

 situated in Saint Frangois and Madison counties, Missouri. New York, 1877 

 (51 pp. and maps). 



As minas de Curo de S. Cyriaco na provincia de Minas Geraes. Eevista Indusirial, 

 Junho de 1878, vol. 2, pp. 171-173. New York, 1878. (Portuguese translation 

 of the preceding.) 



A new method of shaft sinking through water bearing loose materials. Trans. 

 Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers, vol. 13, May, 1884, pp. 216-231. 



Quaternary deposits and quaternary or recent elevation of regions and mountains 

 in Brazil, with deductions as to the origin of loess from its observed condi- 

 tions there. Amer. Geologist, vol. 3, 1889, pp. 345-361 ; also separate. 



Stratigraphy and succession of the rocks of the Sierra Nevada of California. Bull. 

 Geol. Sac. Am., vol. 3, 1891, pp. 413-444. 



Notes upon the surface geolog)'- of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Edited by J. C. 

 Branner. Amer. Geologist, vol. 29, February, 1902, pp. 126-127. 



Unpublished : The geology of the Sierra Nevada as exhibited in a detailed section 

 through Plumas county, California. Assisted by William Watson. The map 

 accompanying this paper covers 160 square miles, on a scale of 1 to 12,000, and 

 other maps cover an area of 800 square miles, on a mile to the inch scale. 



Following the memoirs the Committee on Entertainment, thronojh 

 Mr George H. Eldridge, chairman, made announcements concerning 

 the dinner and other events. 



The President declared the scientific program in order, and the Secre- 

 tar}^ stated that the Council had passed the following resolution : 



" Resolved, That the Council of the Geological Society of America invites the 

 members of Section E, American Association for the Advancement of Science, to 

 present their papers now on the Section E program before the Geological Society : 

 Provided, That such papers as are accepted for reading by the Council of the Geo- 

 logical Society be regarded as Geological Society papers." 



The first paper presented was the following : 



THE FIRST EPARCHEAN FORMATION 

 BY H. M. AMI 



The paper was discussed by C. R. Van Hise, Bailey Willis, A. R. Lane, 

 A. W. Grabau, the author, and the President. A short abstract is pub- 

 lished in Science, volume xvii, page 290. 



