Pleistocene Pajjerx at the Wdslihajton MeetuKjx. ^S^)* 
till are much deca^^etl and colored by oxidation of their iron. 
A large proportion of them yet show glacial striation, and this is. 
notably true of the occasional masses of soft shale, which could 
not endure water transportation. In one place the till lies on a 
highland 300 feet above the moraine, which is there three miles dis- 
tant to the north. The thickness of this extra-morainic till ranges 
from 30 to 70 feet, as shown by sections and wells. Judging from the 
contrast in their degrees of oxidation, this till appears to be surely 
ten times and quite probably fifty times older than the moraine. 
Inequaliti/ of d Istrlhutlon of the eiiylaclnl drift. By Warrex 
Upham. The detritus which was contained within the ice-sheet, 
called englacial drift by president Chamberlin, is very unequally 
distributed. Tracts in New England, New York, Minnesota, and 
Manitoba, were described, some of them notable for the abun- 
dance and others for the scantiness of the englacial drift. Its- 
amount or average thickness held within the ice at the time of its 
final melting and then exposed on the ice surface, as on the 
present Malaspina glacier at the foot of the St. Elias range, is- 
estimated to have varied, in the northern United States and in 
Manitoba, from almost nothing to about forty feet. The rela- 
tionship of the englacial drift to the terminal moraines, and the 
forms in which it was deposited during the departure of the ice, 
namely, as englacial till, perched blocks, kames, osars or eskers, 
valley drift, loess, and deltas of glacial lakes or of the sea. were 
briefly noticed. 
Defloration and deformation of allacial deposits in New Eng- 
land. 'By Homer T. Fuller. Effects of drought and winds on 
sandy river terraces, producing dunes since the clearing of the 
oi'iginal forest, were described; and the speaker recommended 
the re-foresting of man}" of these tracts. 
On, a, deep l>oring near A/cron, Ohio, and its signifcanci'. By 
E. W. *Claypole. a preglacial or interglacial channel of the 
Cuyahoga river in the south part of Akron, now filled with silt, 
has a depth of 3iM) feet. In another channel somewhat farther 
east and tributary to the foregoing, a boring this summer passed 
through about 150 feet of gravel, in which, near the undi-rlying 
rock-bed, a stone arrow-point was found. 
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