COMMUNICATION TO HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 547 



order that the present rapid destruction of the forests of that region may be stopped 

 without delay. 



Passed by the Geological Society of America January 1, 1903, and ordered pre- 

 sented to the Speaker of the House of Representatives by the committee named 

 below. 



S. F. Emmons, President. 

 Herman L."_^Faikchild, 



Secretary. 

 Committee : 



T. C. Chamberlin, Chicago, Illinois. 



S. F. Emmons, Washington, D. C. 



Israel C. Russell, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 



I. C. White, State Geologist, West Virginia. 



N. H. Winchell, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 



0. R. Van Hise, Madison, Wisconsin. 



W J McGee, Washington, D. C. 



W. B. Clark, State Geologist, Maryland. 



C. H. Hitchcock, Hanover, New Hampshire. 



H. L. Fairchild, Rochester, New York. 



J. A. Holmes, Saint Louis, Missouri. 



E. R. Buckley, State Geologist, Missouri. 



The recommendation of the Council was voted. 



The scientific program was resumed and the third and fourth papers 

 of the session, which were received from Section E, were read and dis- 

 cussed as one. 



ORIGIN OF THE SAND HILL TOPOGRAPHY OF THE CAROLINAS 

 BY COLLIER COBB 



RECENT CHANGES IN THE NORTH CAROLINA COAST, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE 



TO HATTERAS ISLAND 



BY COLLIER COBB 



The papers were discussed by W. M. Davis, I. C. Russell, G. K. Gilbert, 

 and the author. Short abstracts are printed in Science, volume xvii, 

 pages 226, 227. 



The two following papers were also received from Section E : 



TOPOGRAPHIC WORK OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY IN NORTHERN CANADA 



BY ROBKRT BELL 



An abstract is printed in Science, volume xvii, page 221. 



