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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
[Dec., 
dalen, on silicified wood in the Norristown shales of Bucks County; 
by Prof. 0. C. S. Carter, on tubular concretions, sheets and plates of 
Pensauken gravel, cemented with iron hydroxide; by Col. Joseph 
Willcox, on the geology and mineralogy of St. Lawrence County, 
New York; and there were a number of shorter communications and 
various discussions. 
There were ten field excursions, with an average attendance of 25. 
The excursions visited: (1) The copper deposits of Upper Salford and 
Frederick Townships in Montgomery County; (2) The crystalline 
schists and limestones between Alton and Glen Hall, in Chester County; 
(3) the New Red traps and shales between Quakertown and Perkasie, 
in Bucks County; (4) the region of Bethlehem, in Northampton and 
Lehigh Counties; (5) the New Red traps and shales in northern Bucks 
County; (6) the silicified wood of the New Red and the minerals of 
the crystalline rocks between Woodbourne and Neshaminy Falls, in 
Bucks County; (7) the Cretaceous and Pleistocene formations near 
Pensauken Creek, in Camden and Burlington Counties, New Jersey; 
(8) the trap at Aldham, Chester County, and the Cambrian Sandstone 
thence to Valley Forge; (9) the crystalline rocks and their minerals 
near Lansdowne and up Darby Creek, Delaware County; (10) the 
cross-section of the Chester Valley, from Devault to Malvern, Chester 
County. 
Three associate members have been added to the Section. 
The following officers of the Section have been elected for the coming 
year: 
Director, ...... Benjamin Smith Lyman. 
Vice-Director, ..... George Vaux, Jr. 
Recorder and Secretary, . . . Silas L. Schumo. 
Treasurer, ..... Miss Emma Walter. 
Conservator, ..... Frank J. Iveeley. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Benjamin Smith Lyman, 
Director. 
Ornithological Section. 
Since the last annual report the Ornithological Department of the 
Academy has been removed from its old quarters to the top floor of 
the Museum building — a far more desirable location, well lighted and 
with ample space for the growth of the collections. 
New racks have been erected to hold the cases and the latter have 
