HENSHAW: REPORT OF SECRETARY AND LIBRARIAN. 
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December 16, 1896. General meeting. Twenty-eight persons 
present. 
Prof. F. W. Putnam. Statement concerning; some recent 
discoveries at Trenton, N. J., bearing upon the early presence 
of man in the Delaware Valley. 
Prof. G. Frederick Wright. The extent of preglacial erosion 
in the United States, and its bearing on the question of the 
length and date of the glacial period. 
January 6, 1897. General meeting. Eighty persons present. 
Mr. A. W. Grabau. The sand plains of Truro, Wellfleet, and 
Eastham. 
Prof. V. S. Shaler. Remarks on Mr. Grabau’s paper. 
Mr. J. B. Woodworth. Remarks on Mr. Grabau’s paper. 
Prof. W. M. Davis. Remarks on Mr. Grabau’s paper. 
Prof. W. M. Davis. A geographical classification of costal 
plains. 
January 20, 1897. General meeting. Forty-three persons present. 
Prof. W. O. Crosby. The great fault and accompanying 
sandstone dikes of Ute Pass, Colorado. 
February 3, 1897. General meeting. One hundred and six persons 
present. 
Mr. William C. Bates. Venezuela and British Guiana ; their 
natural history, scenery, and people. 
February 17, 1897. General meeting. Seventy-three persons 
present. 
Prof. V. S. Shaler. Subterranean water of southeastern New 
England. 
Dr. C. R. Eastman. On some Devonian fish-beds of North 
America. 
March 3, 1897. General meeting. Sixty-five persons present. 
Mr. T. A. Jaggar, Jr. Experimental study of mountain 
building. 
Mr. J. B. Woodworth. Geology of the Gay Head Cliff. 
Mr. Theodore G. White. Petrography of the Blue Hills 
complex. (By title.) 
March 17, 1897. General meeting. Ninety-three persons present. 
Mr. Frank Russell. An account of a naturalist’s voyage down 
the Mackenzie. 
April 7, 1897. General meeting. Thirty-two persons present. 
Report of the Nominating Committee. 
