"234 The Auiericdit (ieohxjht. October, i.s95 
PMward B. Mathews, Baltimore, Md., John (!. Merriani, Berke- 
ley, Cal., H. B. V. Nitze, Baltimore, Md., F. L. Ransorae, Berke- 
ley, Cal., Charles Sehuchert, Washing-ton, D. C, and Josej)!) 
A. Tatf, Washington, D. C'. Philadelphia is to be the place 
of the next meeting, during the Christmas holidays. 
Previous to this session, an excursion of a week's duration 
was taken, beginning at Pittsfield, Mass., and passing Hins- 
dale, Great Barrington, Mt. Washington, Mt. Race, Bear 
mountain, Salisbury, Canaan, Middlefleld, Chester, Greenfield, 
Turner's Falls and Bernardston, all in Massachusetts, to South 
Vernon, Vt., under the leadership of Profs. B. K. Emerson 
and W. H. Hobbs. Sixteen fellows and invited friends par- 
ticipated in this most enjoj^able observation and study of the 
metamorphic rocks and Triassie area of western Massachu- 
setts and the Connecticut valley, namely, George H. Barton, 
Boston, Mass., Miss Florence Bascom, Bryn Mawr, Pa., A. C. 
Boyden, Bridgewater, Mass., W. B. Clark, Baltimore, Md., 
Miss Charlotte F. Emerson, Amherst, Mass., (). C. Farrington, 
Chicago, 111., C. H. Hitchcock, Hanover, N. H., F. J. H. Mer- 
rill, Albany, N. Y., William Orr, Jr., Springfield, Mass., Chas. 
Palache, Berkeley, Cal., Joseph H. Perry, Worcester, Mass., 
William North Rice, Middleton, Conn., Miss Smith, Framing- 
ham, Mass., C. R. Van Hise, Madison, Wis., Lewis G. West- 
gate, Evanston, 111., and Albert A. Wright, Oberlin, Ohio. The 
party traveled, as convenience dictated, by railroad, by livery 
carriages, and much afoot, to the localities where the contacts 
of different rock formations, faults and dynamic metamor- 
phism could be best seen. The rich and varying development 
of secondary minerals along the lines of contact and disturb- 
ance was beautifully illustrated. The weather was perfect 
the whole time, with cool nights and mostly mild and clear 
days, having neither rain nor excessive heat. Admiration of 
the visiting geologists was freely expi-essed for the large ai-ea 
of complex crystalline rocks which during the past several 
years Prof. Emerson has mapped in detail for the U. S. Geo- 
logical Survey, going afoot over all parts of a tract of about 
5,000 square miles. 
For notes of this excursion and of the meetings of this So- 
ciety and the Association, aiding much in the preparation of 
the present report, the American Geologist is indebted to 
Profs. A. A. Wright, I. C. White, J. F. Kemp (in his article on 
