Geology and Paleontology. 841 
The Address of Vice-President G. K. Gilbert before Sec- 
tion E; A. A. A. S., Columbia College, New York, August 
Part of the material on which his address was based. 
n speaking of the need for a word “to denote indefinitely, an 
regate of strata,” since to the word Sormation, formerly used 
in this manner, the Congress has attached a specific meaning, he 
ne Suggest’ that we ma Y nt 
adopti y advantageously enrich our language by the permane: 
a mor terrane, a word whose English meaning has not been well established. 
_ This is a singular, though doubtless inadvertent, plagiarism, 
E » © two international committees (see “ Report of on 
, P: 43, etc., a, c, d, and pp. 50, 9, etc.) have employed the 
Word in just i , pp 5 "9, ) p 
22) “ Professor Renevi 
a op e8estion as to the use of the termination “ al” to convey 
Bitter eee as in Archeal, Cretaceal, Laramal, Belly Riveral, 
Mr Gi xal, if it will induce the local-taxonomy geologists 
Fr bert’s school to admit, through its employment, any _ 
ee ig geological classification, will probably be easily in- 
land of hi Still, after having conceded to him an unusual com- 
pi e in reading hi$ well-rounded periods, one may im- 
Some sprite the agreeable cadence of word-drops caught up by 
tad t of the river of language, and with the added glory of 
i Mg from the intellectual light which floods them, falling 
‘ioe ans matter of the address there are some passages 
~~ Sand some to disapprove. For example, in speaking 
