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tion. The opening address was delivered by the President, Sir 

 John Evans, and other valuable addresses and lectures marked 

 the meeting ; numerous important papers were read in the differ- 

 ent sections. After the close of the meeting various excursions were 

 undertaken, one of them to the Pacific Coast. The Association 

 is to meet at Bristol next year and in Dover in 1899. 



2. Notes on Greenland glaciation. — Prof. R. S. Tarr has con- 

 tributed numerous interesting details to our knowledge of the 

 glacial phenomena exhibited on the west coast of Greenland.* 



In the paper on the Cornell glacier (Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., vol. 

 viii, pp. 251-268, pis. 25-29, March, 1897) he maintains that the 

 angular topography does not necessarily indicate freedom from 

 ice invasion, — that the upper Nugsuak peninsula has all been 

 glaciated — that the glacier has recently withdrawn and is now in 

 process of retreat, with a slight recent advance preceding this 

 retreat. 



Professor T. C. Chamberlin, reviewing this paper in Science 

 (vol. v, pp. 748-753, May, '97) criticizes some interpretations 

 there made, which the author defends in a later communication 

 (1. c, p. 804). 



In the American Geologist the author has described the remark- 

 able "Rapidity of weathering and stream erosion in the Arctic 

 latitudes (vol. xix, pp. 131-136). In a later paper, on " Evidenee 

 of Glaciation in Labrador and Baffin land" (vol. xix, pp. 191-197, 

 March, 1897), observations on the shores of Labrador and Baffin 

 land lead him to conclude that glaciation has been general over 

 these surfaces, and that the ice has withdrawn from these regions 

 in very recent times. 



In another paper, " Valley Glaciers of the upper Nugsuak pe- 

 ninsula, Greenland" (vol. xix, April, 1897, pp. 262-267), descrip- 

 tion is given of the valley glaciers, and the "dying glaciers," 

 which are interpreted as the last traces of retreating glacial 

 sheets. h. s. w. 



3. Revision of the Apodidw. — Charles Schuchert, in a 

 recent article in the Proceedings of the U. S. Nat. Museum 

 (No. 1117, vol. xix, pages 671-676). On the fossil Phyllopod 

 genera, Dipeltis and Protocaris, of the family Apodidw, revises 

 the genus Dipeltis Packard, describes a new species from the 

 Lower Coal Measures, Morris, 111., and shows the relation of 

 Dipeltis to Apus> rather than Cyclus. In rearranging the family 

 Apodidse, a new subfamily Apodinm is proposed, to include the 

 Cambrian genus Protocaris and the recent genera Lepidurus and 

 Apus • and another new subfamily Diplitinm is proposed, to in- 

 clude the Marine Upper Carboniferous Dipeltis Packard, n. s. w. 



4. New Meteorite from Canada. (Communicated.) — The Geo- 

 logical Survey of Canada has recently acquired, through the 

 instrumentality of its Director, Dr. G. M. Dawson, a mass of 

 meteoric iron, which it is proposed to designate as the Thurlow 

 meteorite. It was found by Mr. E. S. Leslie, Jr., May 12th, 1888, 



* See this Journal, vol. hi, pp. 223-229 and 315-320. 



