northern side of the ridge, the flora on the southern side being 
decidedly richer. At times one can obtain lodging and tolerable 
food at the Half-way House on Mt. Washington, but that is not 
always the case. 
Prof. G. Frederick Wright illustrated his account of the 
glacial phenomena of northern France and England with numerous 
stereopticon views from photographs taken by himself. His 
observations, under the guidance of Dr. Croskey of Birmingham, 
Prof. Percy F. Kendall of Stockport, and Mr. Lamplugh of Brid- 
lington, fully confirm the theory of Prof. H. Carvill Lewis that 
the so-called Interglacial shell bedsatMoel Tryfaen in Wales, and 
at Macclesfield, Wellington, and other places in England, are not 
interglacial, but consist of shells which have been pushed up by 
glacial ice from the bed of the sea. This theory is sustained by 
the fact that these shell beds are limited to areas, over which it 
can be proved, from the transported boulders, that glacial ice has 
moved after having crossed a sea bottom. In Wales and north- 
western England these shell beds are associated with boulders 
from southwestern Scotland and the Lake District, and none are 
found outside the area covered by such boulders. On the east 
coast from Flamborough to London the shells are associated with 
Scandinavian boulders which have been brought across the Korth 
Sea. In the interior of England south of York and the Pennine 
Chain there are no glacial marks, and there are no signs of the 
recent occupancy of the country by the sea. There are no recent 
shell beds, no terraces, nor sea beaches. Besides, these supposed 
Interglacial shell beds do not present any indigenous fauna, occu- 
pancy, and place. They rather contain specimens which naturally 
occupy diverse conditions and which have been brought together 
by some such agency as glacial ice. Tertiary and other species 
implying a warm climate are mingled with sub-arctic species. 
Professor Wright believes that the investigations set on foot by 
Professor Lewis explain completely the phenomena which had 
been attributed by Darwin, Lyell, James Geikie, and others to an 
Interglacial period. 
The donation of fifty dollars from the Rev. Robert C. Waterston 
was announced and on motion of Mr. S. H. Scudder it was voted 
that Mr. Waterston’s many and continued acts of interest in the 
