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and Niles, and by Dr. Horace C. Hovey, noting Hall's earnestness 
in boyhood and youth to acquire knowledge of geology and allied 
sciences, walking twenty miles from his home in Hingham, Mass., 
to attend lectures by Benjamin Silliman before the Boston Society of 
Natural History, his distinguished service of more than sixty years 
on the Geological Survey of New York, and his recent illness and 
death August 7th. 
The papers presented before the Geological Society of America, , 
with brief notes of their scope, mostly as stated in the Society's pre- 
liminary announcement, were as follows: 
1. Some Features of the Drift on Staten Island, N. Y. By 
Arthur Hollick, Columbia University, New York City. The 
terminal moraine crosses Staten Island from Fort Wadsworth at the 
Narrows to Tottenville, opposite Perth Amboy, N. J. Its front rests 
partly upon the serpentine ridge and partly upon the plain region to 
the south. In the former locality it consists of true morainal materia4 
of the northern drift. In the latter it comprises a ridge or core of 
Cretaceous and Tertiary clays, sands and gravels shoved forward and 
upward from their original position on the island, and on top of these 
disturbed beds are the morainal till and gravel. At two localities there 
are well defined indications of extra-morainic drift, south of the ter- 
minal moraine. The direction of glacial movement is indicated by 
the striae on rock outcrops to be about S. 17° E. The most abund- 
antly represented bowlders are those derived from the Triassic of 
New Jersey, although nearly all the outcrops between Staten Island 
and the Adirondacks have contributed. A list of about 120 Paleozoic 
fossils obtained from the transported bowlders was appended to this 
paper with another list of about 35 Cretaceous and Tertiary species. 
mostly fossil plants, derived from the disturbed Staten Island strata. 
2. Loess Deposits of Montana. By Prof. N. S. Shaler, Cam- 
bridge, Mass. (Read by title.) 
3. Glacial Waters in the Finger Lake Region of New York. By 
Prof. H. L. Fairchild, Rochester, N. Y. This paper noted the 
stages of glacial retreat and consequent changes of drainage by which 
the glacial lake Newberry, outflowing southward to the Susquehanna, 
was succeeded by lake Warren, about 100 feet lower; and this, when 
the ice was further melted back, by lake Iroquois. For the most defi- 
nite stage between lakes Warren and Iroquois, represented by a large 
beach at Geneva, N. Y., and by an old channel of eastward outflow 
south of Syracuse, the name lake Dana is proposed. 
4. The Stratification of Glaciers. By Prof. Harry F. Reid, 
Baltimore, Md. Lantern views of the glaciers of Switzerland and 
Alaska were displayed, attention being directed to the author's ob- 
servations of the persistency of the original stratification occasioned 
"by the snowfall of successive years on the neve. This structure was 
distinguished from the transverse blue banding, analogous with cleav- 
age, which is occasioned by pressure of the moving ice, being especially 
developed in constricted or very steep parts of the glaciers. 
