GEOLOGICAL WRITINGS OF JAMES D. DANA. 479 



Volcanic action : Amer. Jour. Set. (3), vol. xxxiii, 1887, pp. 102-115. 



Taconic rocks and stratigraphy: Ibid., pp. 270-276 ; pp. 393-419. 



History of the changes in the Mauna Loa craters on Hawaii : Ibid., pp. 433-451 ; 



vol. xxxiv, pp. 81-97; pp. 349-364; vol. xxxv, pp. 15-34; pp. 213-228; pp. 



282-289; vol. xxxvi, pp. 14-32; pp. 81-112; pp. 167-175, 1887-1888. 

 A brief history of Taconic ideas : Ibid., vol. xxxvi, 1888, pp. 410-427. 

 Dodge's observations on Halemaumaa : Ibid., vol. xxxvii, 1889, pp. 48-50. 

 Notes on Mauna Loa in July, 1888 : Ibid., pp. 51-53. 



Points in the geological history of the islands of Maui and Oahu : J6i(^.,pp. 81-103. 

 The origin of the deep troughs of the oceanic depression. Are any of volcanic 



origin? Ibid., pp. 192-202. 

 Characteristics of volcanoes, with contributions of facts and principles from the 



Hawaiian islands : New York, 8vo, 400 pp., 1890. 

 Corals and coral islands : 2d edition, 440 pp., 8vo, New York. 

 Sedgwick and Murchison — Cambrian and Silurian : Amer. Jour. Sci. (3), vol. xxxix, 



1890, pp. 167-180. 

 Archaean axes of eastern North America : Ibid., pp. 378-383. 

 Rocky Mountain protaxis and the post-Cretaceous mountain- making along its 



course: Ibid., vol. xl, 1890, pp. 181-196. 

 Long Island sound in the Quaternary era : Ibid., pp. 425-437. 

 The genesis of the heavens and the earth and all the host of them : Hartford, 12mo, 



70 pp., 1890. 

 The four rocks of the New Haven region — East rock. West rock. Pine rock, and 



Mill rock — in illustration of the features of non-volcanic igneous ejections ; with 



a guide to walks and drives about New Haven : New Haven, 8vo, 120 pp., 1891. 

 Features of non- volcanic igneous ejections as illustrated in the four rocks of the 



New Haven region: Amer. Jour. Sci. (3), vol. xlii, 1891, pp. 79-110. 



On Percival's map of the Jura-Trias trap-belts of central Connecticut: Ibid., 



pp. 439-447. 

 Subdivisions in Archaean history: Ibid., vol. xliii, 1892, pp. 455-462. 

 Additional observations on the Jura-Trias trap of the New Haven region: Ibid., 



vol. xUv, 1892, pp. 165-169. 

 Further observations on the permanence of oceans and continents : Natural Science, 



vol. i, pp. 739, 740. 

 On New England and the Upper Mississippi basin in the Glacial period: Amer. 



Jour. Sci. (3), vol. xlvi, 1893, pp. 327-330. 

 Manual of geology : 4th edition, 1057 pp. , 8vo, New York, 1895. 



In the absence of the author, the following memorial was read by 

 Bailey Willis : 



MEMOIR OF HENRY BRADFORD NASON 

 BY T. C. CHAMBERLIN 



Professor Henry Bradford Nason, one of the founders of this Society, 

 was born at Foxborough, Massachusetts, June 22, 1831. His boyhood 

 was chiefly passed at North Bridgewater, Massachusetts, the native place 

 of his mother. His early education was secured in a school for boys at 



