348 —  Seventifie Lntelligence. 
6. Zhe Geological Society of America.—The Geological Society 
held its seventh summer meeting in Springfield, Mass., August 
27th and 28th, N. 8S. Shaler presiding. The following 1 is a list of 
the papers presented : 
Gro. M. Dawson and R. G. McConnELL: Glacial deposits of Southwestern 
Alberta, in the vicinity of the Rocky Mountains. 
C. H. Hitcacock: The Champlain glacial epoch. 
WARREN UpHam: Drumlins and marginal moraines of ice-sheets. 
H. L. Farrcuinp: The glacial Genesee Lakes. 
B. K. Emerson: The geology of old Hampshire county in Massachusetts. 
N. H. Darton: Notes on relations of lower members of coastal plain series 
in South Carolina. Resume of general stratigraphic relations in the Atlantic 
coastal plain from New Jersey to South Carolina. 
ARTHUR HOLLICK: Creteceous plants from Martha’s Vineyard. Results 
obtained from an examination of the material collected by David White in 1889. 
R. T. Jackson and T. A. JAGGAR: Arrangement and development of plates 
in the Melonitide. 
GEORGE P. MERRILL: On asbestos and asbestiform minerals. 
Wiuu1aAmM H. Hogsss: Pre-Cambrian volcanoes in Southern Wisconsin. 
A. CaPEN GILL: A geological sketch of the Sierra Tlayacac, in the State of 
Morelos, Mex. 
C. H. Gorpon: Syenite-gneiss (Leopard Rock) from the Apatite region of 
Ottawa county, Canada. 
J. F. Kemp: The titaniferous iron ores of the Adirondacks. 
J. C. BRANNER: The decomposition of rocks in Brazil. 
W. M. Davis: The bearing of physiography on Uniformitarianism. 
C. R. Van Hise: Analysis of folds. 
N. S. SHauter: On the effects of the expulsion of gases from the interior of 
the earth. 
7. La Géologie Comparee, par Stanislas Meunier, pp. 1-296, 
figures 1-35, Paris, 1895 (Bibl. Scientifique Internationale).—M. 
Sranistas Meunier of the Natural History Museum of Paris, 
author of numerous papers on meteorites, has brought together in 
an attractive form, with typical French vivacity, a large body of 
facts illustrating the geological relations of the other planets of 
the solar system to the earth. The work is illustrated by 35 
figures in the text, showing the forms of surface configuration of 
the planets and of structure of meteorites like those known on 
' the earth. The author describes a number of remarkable simili- 
tudes between celestial and terrestrial objects, which are certainly 
interesting, though the reader may hesitate to adopt the author’s 
conclusions. 
8. Die Hruptivgesteine des Kristianiagebietes: I Die Gesteine 
der Grorudit-Tinguait Serie; by W. C. Brécerr (Videnskab. 
Skrift 1 math. natur. Klasse, 1894, No. 4. Kristiania, 8°, pp. 206, 4 
plates, etc.)—In his great work on the syenite-pegmatite dikes of 
southern Norway, Professor Broégger promised that this should 
soon be followed by a monograph on the eruptive rocks of the 
same district. The appearance of this volume has been eagerly 
awaited by all workers in this field of science. In his preface to 
the present work, the author states that he has been unable to 
carry out this plan and he now proposes to cover the same 
ground by a series of monographs on special subjects of which 
this, treating of a closely-related series of rock types, is the first. 
