1896.] Proceedings of Scientific Societies. 865 
Shamanistic Ceremonies among the Ojibways, by Harlan I. Smith; 
Notes on Certain Beliefs concerning Will Power among the Siouan 
Tribes, by Alice C. Fletcher ; Pueblo Indian Clans, by F. W. Hodge ; 
Mescal Plant and Rite, by James Mooney. 
Geology.—Friday, August 28.—Glacial Flood Deposits in the 
Chenango Valley, by Albert P. Brigham ; Origin of Conglomerates, by 
T. C. Hopkins ; Origin of Topographic Features in North Carolina, 
by Collier Cobb; The Cretaceous Clay Marl Exposure at Cliffwood, 
N. J., by Arthur Hollick ; Post-Cretaceous Grade-Plains in Southern 
New England, by F. P. Gulliver ; The Niagara Falls Gorge, by George 
W. Holley; The Algonquin River, by G. K. Gilbert; The Whirlpool 
Saint Davids Channel, by G. K. Gilbert; Profile of the Bed of the 
Niagara in its Gorge, by G. K. Gilbert; Origin and Age of the Laur- 
entian Lakes and of Niagara Falls, by Warren Upham; Correlation 
of Warren Beaches with Moraines and Outlets in Southeastern Michi- 
gan, by F. B. Taylor: Notes on the Glacial Succession in Eastern 
Michigan, by F. B. Taylor; The Eocene Stages of Georgia, by Gilbert 
D. Harris ; The Origin and Age of the Gypsum Deposits of Kansas, by 
G. P. Grimsley ; Geomorphic Notes on Norway, by J. W. Spencer ; 
The Slopes of the Drowned Antillean Valleys, by J. W. Spencer; The 
“Augen-Gneiss,” Pegmatite Veins, and Diorite Dikes at Bedford, West- 
chester Co., N. Y., by Lea McI. Luquer and Heinrich Ries; Notes on 
Kansan Drift in Pennsylvania, by E. H. Williams; Preliminary Notes 
on the Columbian Deposits of the Susquehanna, by H. B. Bashore. 
Anthropology.—Friday, August 28.—Finger Prints of American 
Indians, by Fred. Starr; The Temple of Tepoztlan, Mexico, by M. H. 
Saville; The Preservation of Local Archeological Evidence, by Harlan 
I. Smith ; Character and Food, by George V. Reichel; Some Indian 
Rock and Body Painting in Southern California, by David P. Barrows ; 
Recent Explorations in Honduras by the Peabody Museum, by F. W. 
Putnam; Pueblo Indian Clans, by F. W. Hodge; Mescal Plant and 
Rite, James Mooney; Finland Vapor Baths, by H. W. Smith; Cupped 
Stones, by Franz Boas. 
Saturday, August 29.—An excursion to Niagara City, Falls and 
Gorge was given by the citizens of Buffalo. The party took steamboat 
to a point on the Canadian side above the Falls, and then took trolley 
down the river. Fine views of the Falls were had. At Lewiston the 
river was crossed in a steamboat, and the trolley line up the river car- 
ried the party past the rapids and the whirlpool, of which magnificent 
views were obtained. After dinner at the International Hotel, the 
establishments of the Power Company and of the Carborundum Com- 
pany were examined, and the company returned to Buffalo, 
