2 PROCEEDINGS OP SPRINGPIELD MEETING. 



George Perry Grimsley, B. A., M. A., Ph. D., Columbus, Oliio. Professor of 

 Geology in Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas. 



Frederick Putnam Gulliver, A. B., A. M., Norwich, Connecticut. Now engaged 

 in research work in Physical Geography. 



John Bell Hatcher, Ph. B., Princeton, New Jersey. Assistant in Geology and 

 Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Princeton College. 



Edward Bennett Mathews, A. B., Ph. D., Baltimore, Maryland. Instructor in 

 Petrography and Mineralogy, Johns Hopkins University. 



John Campbell Merriam, B. S., Ph. D., Berkeley, California. Instructor in Paleon- 

 tology in the University of California. 



Henry Benjamin Charles Nitze, B. Sc, E. M., Baltimore, INIaryland. Engaged 

 in Economic Geology upon the North Carolina Geological Survey. 



Frederick Leslie Ransomk, B. S., Berkele)', California. Fellow in Mineralogy in 

 the University of California. 



Joseph A. Taft, B. S., AVashington, District of Columbia. Assistant Geologist, 

 U. S. Geological Survey. 



Charles Schuchert, Washington, District of Columbia. Assistant Curator, De- 

 partment of Paleoiitolog\% U. S. National Museum. 



The report of the committee on the Roj^al Society catalogue of scientific 

 papers, which was laid upon the table at the Baltimore winter meeting 

 for printing,* was taken from the table for final action and adopted 

 without debate. 



A report from the special committee on the Mount Rainier Forest Re- 

 serve was read by the Secretary. This report described the efforts of the 

 committee to secure favorable action by the late Congress, tlieir labors 

 thus far being unsuccessful. The report was acce])ted as a report of 

 progress, and the committee was continued, with the addition of the 

 President to its membership. The committee now consists of S. F. Em- 

 mons, Bailey Willis and N. S. Shaler. 



It was voted to adopt the rule regarding the order of papers in reading 

 which had been in force the three previous meetings. 



The reading of papers was declared in order, and tlie first paper read 

 was as follows : 



CHAMPLAIN GLACIAL EPOCH 

 BY C. n. HITCHCOCK 



\_ Abstract] 



Accepting the view of James Geikie of the divisibility of the Ice age into a series 

 of temperate and glacial epochs, one desires to determine the positions of the sev- 

 eral deposits in North America, especially on the Laurentian area. It seems prob- 

 able that the Scanian Pliocene epoch of Geikie may be matched by the Latiiyette ; 



*See this publication, vol. 6, p. 457. 



