New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-22
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE
ADHAkCEMEMENT or SCIENCE.
NXTH DAY-AFTERS0oN SESSION.
Dss1 On ows Rspsster..
MosTREAL, Tuesday, Aug. ls, 1857.
he General Ses.ion this afternoon met at 5 p. IN.

Dsso On ovs Rspssters.
MosTREAL, Tuesday, Aug. ls 1857.
he General Session this afternoon met at p. IN.
D. WrsxE offered the following resolution:
Dsessd That Committee Of be appointed BY the Chair
ssh pa. and tor uniform y ,ss
0sseS States
Mr. FILLMORE felt called upon to say that he thought
sssA . petition would be entirely unavaiIing, since
powers Of the nature contemplated by this resolution
we're confined entirely to the States.
DR.. WYssE Of course deferred to the superior
political knowledge of Mr.. Fillmore. With some
Aiends he had accomplished the passage of the Death
Schedule in the last through Congress- and he
hoped that was only an entering wedge to something
more.
Or. STEINER moved the substitution Of the egisla-
taYes Of the several States for Congress-
Prof BAcHH, in accordance with the Constitution,
nsvsd that it be referred to the Standing Committee
On the amendment there was a tie-the vote stand
ng 70 l. President CAswELL decided in favor OF the
amendment, and the resolution as amended was re-
frIed.
PROF. HALLS ADDRESS.
Prof HALL then re-read bis address. His idea is
that the rock Of the great ranges Of azoic crystalline
mountains are the metamorpbosed remains Of antece-
dent sedimentary deposits He illustrated this by an
1vestigation Of the conditions Of formation OF the
selmeBtary deposits along the Alleghsnes. These
yeeks, in their aggregate thickness, and undenuded
vsald have made mountains 10000 feet high. The
folding Of these beds had degraded them, since had
broken them, SO 10 render denudaton more facile
Deposition alone, and not elevation, had produced
The Aleghanies. He thought that the Lsurentisn
chain was produced in like manner, by currents from
the northeast to the southwest. These ranges Of
mountains, then, due to currents set in motion
long before North America above the waters
Fundamentally, the Cordilleras due to the same
origin ard were OF the age. The coal measures
like the lower strata from the Gulf of 81. Lawrence,
fhnnea out toward the west the carbonifcrous lime
stone thickeniDg in like measure, showing that the
West was submerged at least a part Of the time
while the coal plants were growing in the East. All
things seemed to him to show that the formation of
The continent the gradual evolution of set of
sediments from the bottom of the gradual ele
walton Of the floor of the to the surface of
continent
Prof HALL concluded with some remarks on the
cretaceous formation Of the West the three principal
formations Of which made up q toeraby well con-
bected series Of rocks from the earliest TO the latest
We progressed through the successive periods without
any indications Of violent changes-Only gradual ele
walton and depression, and he believed that climatic
influences had had effect at least since the Lower
Siluran.
Prof BAcHE reported that the Committee on Coin
aGe had held two meetings, but without coming to any
dtfDite conclusion, and the Session adjourned.
In the evening COL Munro gave an entertainment.