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WASHINGTON, D.C.
Meeting 12
Cosmos Club

Wednesday, January 24, 1894

Charles Doolittle Walcott, President          (Charles) Whitman Cross, Meeting Secretary

Robert Lawrence Packard†—Cosmos Club—Variscite from Utah.

Charles Willard Hayes†—USGS—A determination of the lateral compression which has produced the slaty cleavage in east Tennessee.

Grove Karl Gilbert†—USGS—Le Conte's physical theory of mountain formation.

Gilbert Dennison Harris†—US National Museum—On the geological position of the Eocene deposits of Maryland and Virginia.

Lester Frank Ward†—USGS—The Cretaceous rim of the Black Hills.

† GSW Founder


Attendance: 43
Meeting Secretary's Minutes

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