1891] Proceedings of Scientific Societies. gl 
Western as Compared with the Eastern Side of the American Continent ; 
A Note on the Mutual Relations of Land Elevation and Ice Accumulation 
During the Quaternary Period; Joseph LeConte. Geology of the 
Environs of Quebec; Jules Marcou. The Coal Fields of Alabama ; 
Henry McCalley. The Melting of the Northern Ice Sheet in North- 
eastern Iowa; W J McGee. Contribution to the Geology of Georgia ; 
P. H. Mell. The Post-Archean Age of the White Limestones of Sussex 
County, New Jersey; Frank L. Nason, Relations of Secular Rock Dis- 
integration to Certain Crystalline Schists ; Ralph Pumpelly. Glaciers 
of the St. Elias Region, Alaska; I. C. Russell. On the Geology of 
Little Falls, New York; N. S. Shaler and H. S. Williams. The Rail- 
roads and the Geology Classes in Alabama; Eugene A. Smith. Notes 
on Two Moraines in the Catskill Mountains, New York ; J.C. Smock. 
Post-Pliocene Continental Subsidence; J. W. Spencer. Geological 
Notes on Mount Diablo, California; H. W. Turner. Glacial Lakes in 
Canada; Warren Upham. The Cinnabar and Bozeman Coal Fields of 
Montana; Walter H. Weed. A Last Word with the Huronians ; Alex- 
ander Winchell. On the Structure and Petrography of the Piedmont 
Plateau in Maryland ; George H. Williams. Graphic Field Notes for 
Areal Geology ; Bailey Willis. On the Lower Cambrian Age of the 
Stockbridge Limestone at Rutland, Vermont ; J. E. Wolff. Observa- 
tions Upon the Lava Deposits of the Snake River Valley, Idaho; G. 
Frederick Wright. (To be continued.) 
Industrial and Scientific Society of Alabama.—The Alabama 
Industrial and Scientific Society was organized at the University of 
Alabama, Thursday, December 11th, 1890, with 70 members. Its 
objects are the promotion of the industries of the State, and the fur- 
therance of scientific investigations of the problems arising in civil and 
mining engineering, geology, smelting, and the manufacture of coke. 
The officers for 1891 are: President, C. Cadle, general manager, 
Cohaba Coal Mining Co., Biocton. Six vice presidents, viz., Thomas 
Sedcon, president Sloss Iron and Steel Co., Birmingham; C. P. Wil 
iamson, president Williamson Iron Co., Birmingham ; W. E. Rob- 
ertson, city engineer, Anniston; J. W. Burke, president, Tredegar 
Co., Jacksonville; M. C. Wilson, professor natural science, No 
School, Florence; Col. Horace Harding, U. S. engineer, Tuskaloosa ; 
Treasurer, Henry McCalley, Alabama Geological Survey, University 
Alabama; Secretary, Wm. B. Phillips, professor Chem. and Met. 
University Alabama. The annual fee is $5.00. The society will 
"meet three or four times a year at different places in the State for the 
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