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...casts of sculptures and hieroglyphs and an extensive report, illustrated by photographs, have been received. The fourth annual expedition to New York State yielded a good collection of implements, ornaments, pottery, and skeletons from an ancient Iroquois site. In the research work of Mr. Ernest Volk in the glacial deposits near Trenton, N. J., several paleolithic implements were found and additional geological facts were obtained in confirmation of the antiquity of man in the Delaware Valley. The report describes the expedition to South America and acknowledges the courtesies extended by the Peruvian Government, the Inca Mining Company, and others...
...Geological Society of America will be held at Ottawa, Canada, in the House of Commons Building, on December 27, 28 and 29, by invitation of the Logan Club of the Geological Survey of Canada. In all probably payers will be read on petrographic, physiographic, cartographic, economic, physical and structural, glacial, stratigraphic, areal, and paleontologic subjects...
GEOLOGICAL, CONFERENCE. "The Dwyka Glacial Conglomerate of Permian (?) Date in South Africa." (With illustrations and Specimens), Professor Davis Geological Lecture Room...
...Advancement of science. His journey covered over 20,000 miles and led through the most characteristic sections of the country, including the famous gold mines of the Rand at Johannesburg, the great diamond mines of Kimberley, the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi river, and the so-called Dwyka glacial conglomerate of Permian date, a sheet of unstratified clay, and boulders covering an area of about 200,000 square miles, some account of which will be given by Professor Davis at the nest Geological Conference. The whole expedition, which occupied 110 days, was excellently managed and gave an immense amount...
...party under Professor W. M. Davis of the Geological Department, left yesterday for Syracuse, New York, where three days will be spent inspecting the glacial marginal channels known as the "Ancient Niagaras...