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ing the amount of annual subscriptions or contributions that may be 
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Geological SociExy of America. The twelfth winter 
meeting will be held in Washington December 27 to 30. 
The meetings are to be held in the lecture room of the Co- 
lumbian University and the session opens at ten o'clock 
Wednesday morning, December 27. The hotel headquar- 
ters is the Wellington, adjoining the Columbian Universit}', 
on Fifteenth street. Further information concerning the 
meeting ma)- be obtained from the secretary, Prof. H. L. 
Fairchild, Rochester, N. Y. The preliminar)' list of papers 
to be presented at this meeting contains the following 
titles: 
Physiographic development of the Washington region. X. H. 
Darton. 
Physiographic terminology with special reference to land forms. W. 
M. Davis. 
Erosion forms in the Harney Peak district. Black hills, South 
Dakota. Edmund Otis Hovey. 
Camas land, a valley remnant. Geo. Otis Smith and Geo. Carroll 
Curtis. 
Topographic features of Ohio. W. G. Tight. 
Drainage modifications in southeastern Ohio. W. G. Tight. 
Geological structure of Cofifeyville (Kansas) gas field. G. Perry 
Grimsley. 
Surface temperature of the earth. Alfred C. Lane. 
The landslides of the Rico mountains, Colorado. Whitman Cross. 
A recent fault scarp in the Lepini mountains, Italy. W. M. Davis. 
Beach structures in Medina sandstone. H. L. Fairchild. 
Glacial erosion in the Aar valley. Albert P. Brigham. 
Movement of glaciers. Harry Fielding Reid. 
Stratification and banded structure of glaciers. Harry Fielding 
Reid. 
Glacial origin of the older Pleistocene in the Gay Head clififs, with a 
note on the fossil horse of that section. J. B. Woodworth. 
Post-glacial time in Huron county, Michigan. Alfred C. Lane. 
Distinction between Upoer and Lower Huronian. A. P. Coleman 
Keewatin of eastern central Minnesota. C. W. Hall. 
Keweenawan of eastern central Minnesota. C. W. Hall. 
Geology of Quebec City and its environs. Henry M. Ami. 
The Silurian-Devonian boundary in North America. Henry S. 
Williams. 
Stratigraphy of the Pottsville series in Kentucky. Marius R. Camp- 
bell. 
Vertebrate footprints in Carboniferous rocks of Wrentham, Mass. 
J. B. Woodworth. 
Relative ages of the Kanawha and Alleghany series as indicated by 
•fossil plants, David White. 
Newark formation of the Pomperaug valley, Connecticut. William 
Herbert Hobbs, 
Jurassic rocks of S. E. AVyoming. Wilbur C. Knight. 
