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By special request of members of this section, Prof. Reid 
repeated his lecture, "The Gravels of Glacier Bay, Alaska," 
with exhibition of views. He was not able to decide whether 
in some cases the valley gravels originally filled the entire 
width of the valley or were limited to their sides by adjoin- 
ing glaciers. 
Mr. Leverett, in discussion, spoke of terraces observed by 
him in Ohio that were probably deposited only on the valley 
sides. Such terraces are also found in other parts of the 
northern United States, though less frequent than those pro- 
duced by the erosion of valley flood-plains. 
Prof. Salisbury mentioned criteria for discriminating ter- 
races left by erosion from those confined originally b}' ice. 
The latter would have short esker or kame branches where 
the ice was crevassed, and kettle holes where its receding bor- 
der left isolated ice hillocks. 
On motion of Prof. G. F. Wright, the section voted to 
name the northwestern arm of Glacier bay as Reid inlet, in 
commemoration of the explorations of the bay and its tribu- 
tary glaciers by Prof. Reid and his parties in 1890 and 1892. 
During a part of Monday, Aug. 21st, Section E was ad- 
journed to attend sessions of Section H (Anthropology) oc- 
cupied with the following papers and discussions on the re- 
lationship of man and the Glacial period. 
The Evidence of (Uncial Man in America. By Prof. G. F. 
Wright, Oberlin, O. Man's existence in France and Great 
Britain during the Glacial period has been fully proved and 
is now accepted by all archaeologists and geologists, though at 
first it was received with extreme incredulity. In this 
country, likewise, the author thinks that fully reliable proofs 
of the presence of Glacial man have been found in numerous 
localities, although recently those evidences have been criti- 
cised as delusive. Prof. Wright's own observations, and dis- 
coveries by others, as Abbott, Putnam, Carr, Shaler, and Volk, 
in the glacial gravels of Trenton. N. J., Mills and Metz in 
Ohio. Kurtz at Nampa, Idaho, and Whitney. King and Becker 
in the lava-covered gravels of California, were recounted and 
claimed to be satisfactorily established by their testimony. 
The origin of the human race was probably in southwestern 
Asia, whence man migrated northwesterly into Europe and 
