New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-30
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the Bonsecours Market what is sid there and the
people who sell, are all characteristic features OF
the city, aud all worthy OF scientific Investigation.
The ablebOdied women who bring mther choke
cherries aud wild pun3 in prehistoric carts are not
Of the peculiar type of beauty which improves with
age but they are a CHEEKY race, and they are
expert to sell. Perhaps the choke
cherries are unpleasant reminders OF need oil a
closer economy than Is pracLIsed south VI
the St. Lawrence, where this fruit grows via rs
well. but where il runs to waste. But there IS 10
evidence in the faces here that poverty Il oppres-
sive. aud the French Canadian peasant with some
thing TO exchange for silver has an engaging and
persuasive way which the Anglo-Saxon huckster
has never yet attained. Perhaps the wise men who
went TO market We're studying to ascertain why
such hot climate products rs muskinelons grow so
much larger here than they do IN the neighborhood
# New-York. Melons weighing fifteen
pounds are not rare and few ex-
coed this weight considerably. while experience
at the hotels proves that they are Of uniformly ex-
celent flavor And why is it that the same
weather Is hot enough for melons and cold enough
for long crisp and perfectly blanched celery. which
only comes with early frost in lower ATTITUDES
The meeting went on however, and the important
matters accomplished were the selection Of Mime
apolis as the next place Of meeting and the cleo
tion of Professor G.. A. Young of Princeton, as
president for next year.
THE OLD CONTINENTAL GLACIER.
The old continental glacier absorbed tine attention
of the section OF Geography and Geology dur
inr Tia. entire morning session. The great terminal
norllne across Penusy lvania" was the subject OF
an elaborate paper by H. Carvill Lewis who gave
detailed descriptions of the significant features Of
tine deposit and a carefully traced map OF It's course
through the State. Professor Smock who had a
I'll. d. Q.
continental glacier in New-Jersey and adjacent
States Was absent but an abstract Of his paper Vas
gwen by Professor Cook. who stated that the high
est point of glacial action the Catskis was not
over 5000 feet
some interesting speeches were made about the
origin and development of the accepted theory
and the credit claimed for many early
workers III the field who had advanced all the broad
arguments for II a. long as forty forty-Ive years
ago Finally Mr.. Lewis asked Principal Dawson,
vino is known "a, the leading opponent of the glacial
theory, 10 explain certain facts according to The
hypothesis OF floating Ice-hcds, and the Doctor
gave sharp address, IN which lac Asserted mat u
continental ice-held in Northern America largo
enough 10 supply food for the al ged glacier was
known to be q physical impossiDillty,' because
from he distance OF this territory from open seas
the climate would be TOO dry for any such
accumulation of SHOWS There one p0ss bllty
however, and that was there might have been a
river or glacier which produced tne morllne IN that
portion OF the country particularly referred 10; Out
there was u way OF accounting iormoraiues Where
evera cold current Infringes upon a warm current
if forms q noraine aud his is taking place IN the
region of the Gulf str Il any OF his hearers hal
the misfortune ike hImsclf,of owning little piece
of land on the coast of the lower ST.
Lawrence they would see the same
thing as to the formation OF moranes there.
lie mad even boulders nine feet long washed IN
so a, 10 pre- vent the removal Of bis boat from tie
poat-house A very good morane was being formed
there and when tie action of the water OF the sea
filled up the bed of the st Lawrence he expected
that his friends from the other side would come IN
future years and would md great moraine formed
by our Northern glacier.
Professor Newberry thought That Dr. Dawson did
not believe in The glacier, because he had never seen
the great moraine and he added that no sane man
could make a personal examination of the ground
without accepting what is now the received theory
HISTORY OF PLANT LIFE II AMERICA.
At the afternoon session a committee was ap-
pointed to confer with Major Powell in regard 10
the work Of the National survey as Lately eX-
tended by act Of Congress into the
sta,es. after wbich Professor Newberry, of
Columbia. gave an interesting sketch of the
history of plant life in America, IN an address on
The pcncsi, OF the North American fora. Beginning
with he Oldest formation. DR.. Newberry sand:
In the archaan rocks is graphite, which
must have been derived from plant TISSUES but
all possibly have been obhteratei In tn" Clmohaa
only seawecds have been found. In ne Lower oiual
the presence OF land plants had been Claimed bit
without satisfactory evidence. In the Upper
5iurlan few club MOSES have been met
with 90 Europe and America In the Deyonian me land
was clothed Win plants, some ~" 7ltccr Nav Dee"
anu cqu.setl In DE Dey0nidn sea- we're lsand, near
w.cr. Cincinnati -tanas and they were covered with
The r.rhoaii .ro1- nora was known the world over
II consisted 81 irrn-. Hfoipu7 ahi ciu,i,r' e. -
Jersey Drowu-toue belongs, tie vegetation Wa manly
sa-o palms and pue-; "th may frrns Pc
The vegetation of thc gobs revouuoniz.d
a rosp-rus ana palms taking the places of the cycnds,
,c Of the ria, ana Jura Ina New-JeIsy ana On the
far West perhaps $50 species OF Tees hhd Dre Iouhu
re,enb ing those now living, n they included oaA'
brcncs and willows well a. the tlp tree sweet gum
sassalras, magnolias, etc. 1911. ,, , ami
Inc Tert.arg Jhe age OF North America LOT am
mails aud plants For them mild cilnae preValeo 10
the Arctic and The land was covered WIZ 'p,Hlh
forests. O which the great seqdo IS 81 Caii.oAt anu ~
finest Of trees are reInA ht lAen tI.I44 VIC
Land come clOn between America and Europe Ana asia
at Mgh LATITUDE anu the A-i,i Ca. No., on,ttn.,-.
here in the CrcraceOus extended INTO Doth cohhhchs
driven south Ia Europe the Mediterranean PIE /
vented their escape, aud then American Pi"n,H
vegetation wien The climate became mier TIC upia-
Of Japan and Eastern America are very lAe lh' le7
of fytical trec- the American flora Oh ths aS iu
trees -a.-afrtS ond maguoIlas were i"Hh' I'D
Itnr,.u. - ar -out a, Iaiy China anu Am rict part
Of nm, vegetation survives, aud the Nr't.loh o. Japan
ana Els very Ike mat ai ootau"ia A''
~ .,l That th-y must have had common "f-'D ga
r, al, eu1u. some OF the plants extinct h Nln''lc.
had survived iu China among whien ATE me sn-p ana
r1utO-tlobu@ tNn b. 4u.liul cuAltin Ohc. c"IH'I o
he ITpucr Missouri. found only III CHINA.
Professor New Jerry showed great number "l
49,. ,,,n.tr,tIu5 his remarks which were ,uiu-
mary OF "A voluins ne ha- prepared for ine on!it"
STATES theological Survey, and which vii. be pun
lIshed this tai.
OTHER PAPERS READ.
Tn the chronological section the Hon. h"ratio
Hale. of Clinton ont. ygho vas introduced 10y Pro-
fessor Wnchell ~ one OF the American pioneers III
ethuology, having been thnosraphcr-n-Chei to