New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-25
BIOLOGISTS IN SESSION.
MEETING OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY IN
WASHINGTON.
A NUMBER OF FOREIGNERS pREsENT-HoSoR-
ING THE MEMORY OF PROFESSOR
my TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNHJ

Washington Aug. 24.-The opening session Of tho
Geological Society Of America at the Columbian Uni
versity building to-day assumed something Of inter
national phase account Of the many delegates
awaiting the meeting of the International Congress
on Wednesday. The programme Of the day contained
papers By delegates from Frciburg, Munich. Cam
bridge London. St. Petersburg Moscow Llege and
Stockholm. owing to the death of the president
Professor Alexander Winchell, the acting president
Professor G. X. Gilbert called the session to order
He paid feeling tribute TO the memory Of his prcde-
cessor and said that in an important sense tic society
was Professor Winchers society Professor H. H.
winchen then read a memorial Of bis brother, the
dead president.
he was born IN Dutchess County, New-York Decem
Der 81, 1894, and died at Ann ArbOr February 49,
1901 II was while chancellor of the University Of
Syracuse that perhaps the most notable incident OF
his life occurred. lie lectured at the same time In
Vanderbilt University, and his published article Adam
and the Adamle" aroused hostility on account OF its
alleged heterodoxy. When, in 1878, he refused to
decline reappontmcnt TO lecture at Vanderbilt Uni
versity his Syracuse professOrshp was summary
abolished The later years Of his life were spent as
professor Of geology and paaeOntology at Ann Arbor
The number Of his published works Is 566. lie dis
covered seven genera and 3o4 new species. mostly
archaeological. Sixteen species were named
after him by other paaeontOogsts. He contributed
most important services to the determination Of the
geology Of Michigan while director OF tho Geological
Survey Of that State, prominent among which was
the discovery and establishment Of tho Marshall epoch
On motion Of Professor Van ise the chair appointed
Professor orion, DR.. White and Professor Van Hise
committee to draft appropriate resolutions IN memory
OF Professor Wnchell.
The reading OF papers was then begun, the first
being "a Geological Map Of South America by DR..
Gustave Steinmann, of Frcibrg, Germany. DR.. Stein
mann was sent to South America by the strasburg
University. One important conclusion reached was a
remarkable similarity between the geology Of the two
Americas ard especially between the geology OF the
Southern United states and the Southern continent.
The second paper by DR.. August Rothpletz OF the
University Of Munich, Germany, on the Prema,
Trassic and JuIasslc formations in the East Indian
Archipelago. The paper devoted to the description
of somo mesozolc and paaeozolc fossils collected In
two of the Indian islands by his friend Dr. Wichmann
"Thermometamorphsm In Igneous Rocks the
ttle of the next paper read. 1t WIS by DR.. Alfred
Harker, Of st. Johns College, Cambridge, Eng, and
dealt with the effects Of high volcanic temperatures ID
the formation Of rocks
Professor Alexis Pavelow. Of the University OF Mos
cow Russia, presented paper in French, being
history of the marine fauna ut the end OF the Jurassc
and the beginning of the CreaceOus periods Of geology
Professor Max Lohest of the University of Liege,
Belgium, read a paper in French dealing with the
question Of tho conemporaneous existence OF man ana
the mammoth in Belgium. Other papers presented
were by Baron Gerald De Gecr, state Geoiog1st,
Stockholm, sweden on inc "Sualcrlirg NnhbScs VI
Level In Scandinavia; c. D. Walcott, "The Lower
srurian (Ordoviclan Ichthyc Fauna and its Mode Of
Occurrence Lester F. Ward. Relations OF the Plant
bearing Deposits Of the American Trais"; Joseph F.
James, "Studies in Problematical Organisms-thc
Genus Scothus"; r. A. F. Penrose, jr "The Tertiary
Iron Ores of Arkansas and Texas' Robert Hay, con
trbuton to the Geology Of the Plains, sandstone Dkes
in Northwestern Nebraska
Members of the American Association for the Ad
Of Vol
excursions. some started last night for Old Point
Comfort. intending 10 return tonight. a large party
went to Baltimore, where the city steamer lsrope
yes placed at their disposal and various points about
the harbor visited, well as the Johns Hopkins
University and other interesting places on shore III
the afternoon rival attractions were offered by TIP
to the Pney Branch Of Rock Creek. and expiration
Of the stone quarry and workshop of palaeothic I'm
elements discovered by Professor W.. H.. Holmes, ana
visit 10 Cabin John Bridge with the longest sngle
span in the world, and the Glen Echo Chautauqua AS
sembly, where the last concert of the season was
given Some members Of the association found time
also TO visit the art gallery Of Mt. Wagganan at
GEORGETOWN, and the CorcoTan Art Gallery