SESSION OF WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30 633 



This paper was discussed by G. K. Gilbert, R. S. Tarr, F. Carney, 

 A. Penck, and A. P. Brigham. 

 Adjourned at 5.25 o'clock. 



The Society met at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening, in the lecture-room of 

 the geological department, to listen to the presidential address of Pro- 

 fessor Samuel Calvin, who chose as his theme "Present phase of the 

 Pleistocene problem in Iowa." This paper has appeared as pages 133-152 

 of this volume. 



At the close of the address the Society and its friends adjourned to 

 the rooms above the lecture-hall and participated in a "smoker" as the 

 guests of the geological department of the university. 



Session of Wednesday, December 30 



Wednesday ' morning the Society came to order in general session, 

 President Calvin presiding, at 9.35 o'clock. 



The Council report was, on motion, taken from the table and adopted. 



The Auditing Committee reported rinding the Treasurer's accounts 

 correctly cast and properly vouched. The report was adopted. 



The Secretary then read a letter from Hon. Gifford Pinchot, chairman 

 of the National Conservation Commission, requesting the appointment 

 of a committee by the Geological Society of America with which the 

 Commission might confer regarding geological subjects. It was voted to 

 empower the President to appoint three Fellows to act as a Committee on 

 Conservation. 1 



Professor Albrecht Penck, of Berlin, who had been invited by the 

 Council to participate in the meeting, presented a paper entitled "Inter- 

 glacial epochs." 



At the close of this paper the special section on correlation withdrew 

 for the continuation of its sessions, and the general section, with Presi- 

 dent Calvin in the chair, proceeded with the main programme. 



The following two papers were read: 



GLACIAL WATERS WEST AND SOUTH OF THE ADIRONDACKS 

 BY H. L. FAIRCHILD 



[Abstract] 



As the lobes of the ice-sheet melted away south of the Adirondacks, high- 

 level waters were held in the Schoharie and Mohawk valleys, into which was 



1 Later the president (G. K. Gilbert) appointed I. C. White, A. C. Lawson, and E. V. 

 d'Invilliers to serve as this committee. 



