Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-28
BIOLOGISTS MEET
The Twelfth Winter Session Of the
American Society.
READING OF PAPERSON VARIOUS TOPICS
Annual Address of President of the
Association.
THE SOCIAL FEATURES

The twelfth winter meeting of the Geo
| logical Society of America, at the Column
bian University, has served to bring to-
| gether number of the men prominent in
| that science. Their presence here is the
| occasion of many pleasant social affairs
and the exercise of a cordial hospitality on
| the part of the resident members and 9TH
| erS.
The sessions are occupied. with the read
| ing of papers and at the opening of the
| meeting yesterday an address of welcome
was delivered by DR.. G. K. Gilbert of this
city, and the president of the society, Prof
| B. X. Emerson of Amherst, Mass, made
| an appropriate response.
| The titles of the papers read at the ses-
| sions yesterday We're:
| By N. H. barton, "Physiographc Devel-
| opment of the Washington Region by w
NJ. Davis, photographic Technology,
| With Special Reference to Land Forms
| by George Otis Smith and George Carroll
| Curtis 'Camas Land, Valley Remnant
| by G. X. Gilbert, Submerged Forest of the
| Columbia River" and by Bailey Willis,
| Some Coast Migrations Southern Cali
| fornia;'' by Edmund Otis Hovey, Erosion
Forms in the Harvey Peak District Black
Hills. S. D. by G.. w. Tight Topographic
! Features of Ohio by W. G. Tight. Drain
age Notifications in Southeastern Ohio"
| by W hitman Cross, The I.andsjdes of the
| Rico Mountains. Colorado" and by w. NJ
| Davis. "A Recent False Scarp in the Lee
! PM Mountains. Italy"
Many of these were illustrated with stere-
| opticon views.
Annual ADDRESS.
The annual address of the president of
the society, B. X. Enercou, was delivered
last evening. The subject was the ''Tetra-
| hedral Earth and the Zone of the Inter-
| continental Seas" 1t was illustrated with
| lantern slides
a reception will be given tomorrow even
| ing at the university by the Washington
| Academy of Sciences in honor OF the So
! ciety. The reception Will begin at s
| o clock A feature will be reports with ref
| eI ence to the Hartman Alaska expedition.
Subjects Discussed.
! The titles of the papers read at the SEES
| sion this morning and the names of those
presenting them are as follows:
| Israel C. Russell, Deposits of Calca-
reous Mari in Michigan" H. l.. Fairchild,
Beach Structures in Medina Sandstone"
Albert P. Brigham. Glacial Erosion in the
Aar Valley Harry Fielding Reid. Move
ment of Glaciers Harry Fielding Reid,
Stratihcation and Banded Structure of
Giaciers:r J. B. Woodworth, Glacial ORR
gin of the Older Pleistocene in the Gay
Head Cliffs. with note on the fossil horse
Of that section
The program for the session this after
noon includes the following papers:
Ii. l. Fairchild, "A Chsnneled Drumlin;''
y. p. Coleman, distinction Between Up
per and Lower Huronian;" Charles Schu-
ebert, The Lower Devonic Aspect of the
Lower Helderberg and Orishany Forma-
tons Henry S. Williams. THE Silurian-
Devoni2n Boundary in North America
Arthur c. Spencer, "Devonian Strata in
Colorado" Marius r. Campbell Strait
graphy of the Pottsville Series in Ken
lucky"
Some of the papers at both sessions were
Illustrated by lantern slides
The annual dinner of the society will be
given this evening al the Raleigh Hotel.
Two sessions will be held tomorrow, and
it is expected the society will adjourn at
the close of the session Saturday morning.