The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-28
- GEOLOGISTS IN SESSION.
Professor Emerson Read an Interesting
 Paper-1t ther Papers Presented.

Professor Emerson Read an Interesting l Paper ther Papers Presented. Springfield, Aug. 27.-At the meeting of the Geological society this afternoon Professor B. K. Emerson read a paper on geology of the Connecticut valley. He has been studying the geology of the valley for a quarter of century; has lately been mapping 1t for the Unit ed States geological survey. He made three chapters, first on the crystalline rocks which make the Green mountains cover the country between the Housa- tonic and the Connecticut valley and east of the valley the country covered by the Worcester county plateau. He began the description with an account Iof the most ancients, the pre-C Cambrian or Archean, and went eastward across the mountains, describing especially the great emery bed at Chester, and com- pairing them with the rocks on the east ern side, describing especially the Nun son quarries. In the second chapter he described the Quassic rocks, the red sandstones and traps which occupy the Connecticut river valley and make Mount Tom and Mount Holyoke and the greater portion indeed of the pictur- lesque scenery of the Connecticut river. In the third chapter he discussed the later deposits the glacial deposits and fbp n Inc Cnnnn0tic11t va 11pU specially calling attention to the beau tifully complex traces around Spring field and especially the formation of Round Hill in Springfield, which was lcaused by the river forming an ox-bow laround it.
 The fact that the Connecticut river makes all it's bows on the west side IS due to the rotation of the earth; the tconditions here being peculiarly favora- ble because the river flows through broad plains of fine grained alluvial beds, of equal height and uniform hard mess
 At the meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science the lpaper of R. H. Wolfe on some unexpect- led results from spraying peach orchards
 
 Insects had been destroyed by such | spraying. Professor c. S. Plumb read la paper on the form of the cows udder lin relation to milk production. He says lthat boxy udder with the four quar-
 ters equally developed gives best re- suits.
 M A. Carleton of the agricultural department at Washington, presented the Present Status of Cereal Cult lure" He anticipates that the comple- tion of the Siberian railroad will rem
 der+t that country the most formidable | competitor of America in the raising of wheat, thus the outlook is for con-
 tinued low prices. The department is
 striving by selection and crossing to
 produce non-rusting varieties and thus enable America to hold her place in
 the great worlds competition. In dis
 cussing the paper, Professor Brewer of New Haven, remarked that the wheat region was perhaps not so illimitable as ; some suppose, since 1t does not pay
 to raise wheat at greater distance than twenty miles from railroad or water transportation. Professor Brewer | is already spoken of as probably the next president of the American Asso-
 citation for the Advancement of Sci
 ence.
 It is conceded that the presidency
 ought to go to the economic section in' asmuch as that section has never yet } had the office, and Professor Brewers s long and useful career at Yale seems to fix attention on him. The Associa- : tion of Economic Entomologists has several papers of technical value. The
 Mathematical society's proceedings were too abstruse for general interest Unusual interest was felt in the paper of R. P. Williams before the Chemical society on the new electrical process for making white lead, which he described The product has better covering quality than that made by any
 other process.
 MT. Thomson and others are inter- ested in a company which has been or ganized to apply this method. The Chemical society spent the afternoon in an excursion to Holyoke, where the paper mills Merrick Thread Mills and Carr Alpaca Mills were visited. The Society for the Promotion o1
 Agricultural Science elected William R Lazenby of Columbus, O.. president and
 C. S. Plumb of Lafayette, Ind, secre. tary and treasurer and completed their sessions.
 , The new art museum will be opened tto-morrow evening by a reception tc the visiting scientists.
 The Botanical society of America which was organized at Brooklyn last
 year and includes only botanists of
 recognized ability began its first regu-
 lar meeting to-day. Professor William
 Trelease of St. Louis, president, in the
 chair, and elected these officers: , President, c. s. Bessy of the Uni
 versity of Nebraska; vice president w. P. Wilson of Philadelphia; secre.
 tary, c. R. Barnes of the University of , Wisconsin; treasurer, Arthur Hollick ot l Columbia college. The reading of pa
 pers will begin tomorrow.
 The George Walter Vincent Smith collection will for the first time be f open to inspection, comprising paint.
 ings, sculpture, ceramics, Japanese curios. tapestries, bronzes, vases, coins
 and all manner of art curios.
 An Iucendiary Fire.
 3 Fitchburg, Mass. Aug. 27.-JOel A s | Hayward's house. barn and outbuild.