New-York daily tribune., 1855-08-22

~ y large and honest renovn Of their ismented pa
ron associate and md. He hinsef has scSn the
seed of Lis owp ample and glorious
In all the broad expaDse of our continental Union iron
the AflaDtc TO the Pacific Ia there comm anl,y or
hamlet 20 small or remote as not to know and pro
nounce the Of Abbott Lawrence M me moS So
gscious patriotic and munihceh' pauon OF Aner'oan
Scienoel
DIR. WAYLAND could hardly let these resolutions
pa,s without ring 10 say single word. II 30 hap
peped that Mr. Lawrence was kind enough to converse
with him on this subject when he was organizing this
school, and he was very much struck, as his friend
Mr. Ruggles was aso with the lageness OF his views,
ibe cearness Of his conceptions, and with the distinct
knowledge that he had Of what he Was do.og. He
had distinct object in view; his object was 10 cum
mepce an institution which should be type Of other
institutions that should pesd the blessings OF science
throUg hout country IN a way IN which ~ nsd nor
before been spread abroad lie looked upon nla nr.
Lawrence) a. type Mr. Rucgles bad said, OF what
was 10 be. lie had set example for men al wealth
in this country While Boston would always be proud
of the name Of Lawrence there would be other Law
rences arising in New York, ID Philadelphia IN all our
large ct.sa train Of that would do honor to toe
country and to human nature. But however large this
train might be, however noble and however magnani-
mous they would all date from the name OF lawrence
they would oil be the Lawrences OF this country.
He believed that no honor which they could confer
would be really adequate 10 the noble, high minded,
patriotic effort Of this whom all iet honored by
claiming as their fellow citizen
Prof PIERCE would nothave il thought that because
Lone of the tributes which had been paid Mr.. Law
renee were from his own state that he not appre
caied a. home lie had been universally beloved aud
respected in bis own State. All bis friends and neigh
bors u him 10 be The of more goodness IN his
native city than perhaps any other man ever was
Prof sILLINAN, Sen, ss one of the odcrmen, added
his word TO the tributes which had been paid aud the
resolutions were unanimously adopted.
The Association then divided into Sections.
In the Section of Geology, Mr.. EDWARD DANIEL
detailed a rather remarkable Of sicious
grits as vein stones in the lead mines OF Wisconsin.
Mr.. JoHs BRAISERD followed referring to the pape
which be had read at Cleveland, claiming chemca
origin for quartz in congomerate. Since then he had
seen pebbles which on breaking were found to contain
fucoid
President HrTcucocK presented paper sent by a
member of the Association, missionary in India Mr..
Burgess Of Satars the geology of India, and also
on the composition of Table Mountain at Cape Towo.
There was in the Chants The most extensive region Of
trap in the world; the bed 600 miles long and he
knew rot bow many miles broad. This was traversed
by river vaeys 600 feet deep, down through the
trap. The trap was covered with fufa, tins with
amye edaoid, snd this with carbonate OF limo from hot
springs on a wonderfully extensive scale while ltterlte
capped the mountains. President Hitchcock exhibited
specimens Of all these rocks and splendid crystal of
calciie also of the rocks composing Table Mountain
which precisely the same be said as those OF the
table l8nd 500 miles 70 the nOrthward.
Mr. REDrIELD said that the British geologists placed
with this immense bed of trap layer of sandstone,
which from some of its figured fossils he took to be
the equivalent of the NewJersey red sandstone. The
ischy pterus was precisely the same.
President HlTcHcooK then gave an account Of the
manner in which be was first led to the Observance of
glacial marks and the localities in which be had since
found them, from Monroe to Sbelburne and nom
Beckett TO West6tld on the tributaries Of the Con-
Deccut He was first led 10 notice them by seeing
east and west scratches in the side OF gorge while on
the sumuts on either side the north and south
strd Of ihe drift. lie bad fouud also what he was
compelled to call moraires lie had scarcely exPiotvs
the Hoosac range at all with this object in view, but
it did seem to hun that he had too many cases to be
the result Ol imagination.
Mr.. DANIELS said that in Wisconsin he had found
one case of drifsrid which declined 40 degrees from
The meridian though the varia ion was generally from
90 10 %.
Mr. REDfIELD said that the drh-strid seemed 10
him to be divided into two systems, one mo
tugeiner, ana seemed to be owing
TO The two currents as there were now two currents ia
the ooeap. So far from being led down into the val
leys, thee case in Jersey whore s'rd rose
up Oyera high bin, where there was a valley on both
tiGee.
Mr.. LESLIE cited more striking similar instance in
fenDsyINhDlu NDce INC Nblley on one sue was @VVV
feet deep. He had seen in Wales Y-shsped valleys,
with the point turned upward, which could never be
owing to glaciers.
Mr.. LEE had noticed similar grooves north of the
Catskill Mountain House, 300 feet above the sea.
DR.. STEVENS alluded 70 block Of granite found in
the very act Of digging groove in mestene in West
en New. York The boulder was considerably rounded.
President HrTcHcocK said that the difference be-
tween drift and modified drit was as distinct as be
tween the siluIian and cretaceous formations.
Mr.. STEVENS exhibited some specimens of suphuret
of iron formed in coal since the dr era, aud accom-
panied them with few remarks.
Prof AGAssIz exhibited the formation Of epidoe al
Nahant, from sandstone and orgalc limestone, by
Plutonic agency and sou remarkable lines OF sepa-
ration in mt tamorpbosed stratfed rocks Of the Car
boniferous era, st the same place.
Mr.. JAS. HALL spoke Of the development OF the
septs in the genus Bscalites becoming more complex
during their growth from extreme youth to adde's
cence. The same thing bad been observed before in
AmmODites. These young Bacalites rescmbled the
Young Of Cephalopods
Prof. AGAssIz said that these facs were certainly
new with regard to Bacaltes, and Leopold vcn Buch
had alluded to the growing complication Of the septa
in young Csphslopods. About eight years ago he
had called attention 10 the couespondence between
the young Of present species with older fossils, and
pointed cut the identity in form Of the young foseils
with the higher representatives In the living state
The fossils Of ancient times would thus help us on with
embl yOnic obscrvatiOrs living species. Should we
90 on negectng this Now, he was making these
remarks to tire out the Section until whenever new
fossil brought il should be connected with some