72 Th< AiiKi'icnit Geologist. Jan. 1891 
Legislature before the edition can be bound. A small number of 
copies Lave been bound and distributed. 
The Second Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of 
America was held at Washington, Dec 29-31. There was a large 
attendance, and numerous papers were read. The matter which 
was presented was so voluminous that it was necessary to divide 
the meeting into sections which were in session cotemporaneously. 
It is impracticable to present here even abstracts of the papers 
read, but as they may appear in the future publication of the 
bulletin of the society they will be further noted. In the absence 
of the president, Prof. J. D. Dana, and of the first vice-president. 
Prof. J. S. Newberry, both because of illness, the session was 
presided over by Prof. Alexander Winchell, the second vice- 
president. The meetings, which were continued forenoon, after- 
noon and evening of each day, were held in the Columbian 
University. 
The following was reported as the result of the elections for 
1891: President, Alexander Winchell, Ann Arbor, Mich.; First 
rice-preside nt. (I. K. Gilbert, Washington, D. C. ; Second vice- 
president, T. C. Chamberlin, Madison, Wis.; Secretary, II. L. 
Fairchild, Rochester, N. Y. ; Treasurer, H. S. Williams, Ithaca, 
N. Y. ; Councillors for one year. J. C. Branner, Little Pock. 
Ark., Geo. M. Dawson, Ottawa, Ont. ; Councillors for Urn years. 
E. W. Claypole, Akron, 0., C. H. Hitchcock. Hanover, N. II.; 
Councillors for three //ears. I. C. White, Morgantown, W. Ya. . 
J. J. Stevenson, New York, N. Y. ; Editor, W. J. McGee,. 
Washington, D. C. 
DiAMor\ T i>s have been found recently in Wisconsin a few miles 
east of the Mississippi river, in the vicinity of Trempeleau. They 
were known to occur several years ago, but had not been brought 
to the notice of experts till recently, when they have been ap- 
proved b}- Mr. Geo. F. Kunz, who read a paper on the subject -at 
the late meeting of the Geological Society of America at Wash- 
ington. They were discovered in washing gravel for gold, and 
seem to have been derived either from an outcrop of crystalline 
schists, or of a coarse conglomerate, which both occur near the 
spot. 
