1876.] Seientijie Serials. 703 
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
APPALACHIAN Mountain CLUB. — July 26th. At a field-meeting 
held in North Conway, Prof. Charles E. Fay, of Tufts College, in behalf 
of Professor E. T. Quimby, of the Coast Survey, and a member of the 
Mountain Club, spoke of recent coast survey work among the mountains. 
Mr. Wm. G. Nowell, of the English High School, Boston, interested 
the meeting with an account of explorations on Mount Adams and the 
opening of a new path, displaying the club stamp (A) adopted for mak- 
ing blazes on trees, end the club stencil (A. M. C.) for identifying 
signals on rocky summits. 
Mr. J. Rayner Edmands, engineer, Boston, exhibited profile views of 
the mountains obtained with the help of a camera he had ingeniously 
devised. He also showed an improved form of knapsack for Appala- 
chian travel. 
| Mr. G. C. Mann, of Cambridge, showed a contour map of the United 
States that he had colored with much skill, and thereby illustrated the 
height of mountains, improving on the usual style of such illustration. 
He enlarged on his theme with much minuteness and patience of detail. 
Professor Hitchcock, of Dartmouth College, and State Geologist of 
= New Hampshire, unrolled various geological charts and explained the 
geological structure of the New Hampshire mountains. 
Professor Pickering, the president, gave an account of his own work 
: in determining the height of various mountain points, and then pleasantly 
referred to the controversy prevailing with regard to the name of the 
, Mountain near at hand, whether Pequawket, Kiarsarge, or Kearsarge. 
| He said that the club greatly desired to ascertain and recognize the true 
name of the mountain, but not to invent a new one and affix it on their 
own responsibility, and Rev. Mr. Worcester submitted resolutions cov- 
ering this point, to allay any misapprehension. In these resolutions, 
which were adopted, a desire was also expressed to pay proper regard 
to the local preferences in any community as to the names of mountains. 
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Chart of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains and of Canada 
F. H. Bradley. 
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