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WASHINGTON, D.C.
Meeting 46
Cosmos Club

Wednesday, March 25, 1896

Samuel Franklin Emmons, President          Timothy William Stanton, Meeting Secretary

Grove Karl Gilbert†—USGS—Some effects of wind action in eastern Colorado.

Grove Karl Gilbert†—USGS—Rocks with peculiar surface markings resembling vermicular carving..

George Perkins Merrill†—US National Museum—An occurrence of free gold in granite.

(Charles) Whitman Cross†—USGS—The diorite of Ophir Loop and its inclusions, with suggestions as to the origin of certain gneisses.

Henry Ward Turner†—USGS—Archaen gneiss in the Sierra Nevada.

Joseph Stanley-Brown†—USGS—The Pribilof Islands as evidence of epeirogenic movement.

† GSW Founder


Attendance: 43
Meeting Secretary's Minutes
Published account of meeting

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