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carrying tents, provisions, and other supplies. A dark room 
and a complete photographic outfit will be provided. Prof. 
Wilbur C. Knight, of the University of Wyoming, will have 
charge of the party. It will take one course to the grand 
canon of the Platte, and will return by another course, giv- 
ing an opportunity for viewing some of the finest scenery in 
the West, and also giving a chance to collect great quanti- 
ties of vertebrate fossils. — Scientific American^ July 29. 
Meetings of the American Association and the Ge- 
ological Society. The forty-eighth annual meeting of the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science has 
just been held in Columbus, Ohio, under the presidency of 
Dr. Edward Orton, from Monday to Saturda}^, August 21st 
to the 26th. About 350 members and associates were in at- 
tendance, and large series of papers were presented in each 
of the sections. Their sessions were held in the buildings 
of the Ohio State University. More than a hundred new 
members were elected, including a large representation from 
the cit\' of Columbus. 
In section E (Geolog)' and Geography) Dr. J. F. Whit- 
eaves, of the Geological Survey of Canada, was vice-presi- 
dent, and Prof. Arthur Hollick, of Columbia University, 
New York City, secretary. The vice-presidential address 
by Dr. Whiteaves, on"The Devonian in Canada" was given at 
two o'clock on Monday afternoon; and in the evening there- 
tiring president, Prof. F. W. Putnam, gave an address in the 
Board of Trade Auditorium, which was followed by a recep- 
tion to the members and guests of the Association. 
On Tuesday, the 22d, the Geological Society of America 
held, in joint session with section E, its eleventh summer 
meeting. Prof. B. K. Emerson, being the president, and 
Prof. H. L. Fairchild secretary. Nine other societies, affili- 
ated with the American Association, also held meetings in 
Columbus during or immediatel)' preceding the general 
Association meeting. 
The list of papers presented before section E and the 
Geological Society, in their order on the daily program 
was as follows: 
The Geology of Columbus and vicinity. Edward Orton, Columbus, 
Ohio. 
Glacial Phenomena of Central Ohio, t'rank Leverett, Denmark, Iowa. 
Glacial and Modified Drift in Minneapolis, Minn. Warren Upham, 
St. Paul, Minn. 
Lateral Erosion at the Mouth of Niagara Gorge, G. Frederick 
Wright, Oberlin, Ohio. 
The Geology of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. Charles H. Hitchcock, Han- 
over, N. H. 
A pre-Cambrian-Upper Algonkian Terrane. Charles D. Walcott, 
Washington, D. C. 
The Petrographic Province of Fox River Valiev, Wisconsin. W. H. 
Hobbs and C. K. Leith, Madison, Wis., with analyses by W.W. Daniels. 
