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WASHINGTON, D.C.
Meeting 68
Cosmos Club

Wednesday, November 24, 1897

Arnold Hague, President          Timothy William Stanton, Meeting Secretary

George Ferdinand Becker†—USGS—A proposed change of nomenclature in the classification of rocks and minerals.

Marius Robinson Campbell†—USGS—Laminated clay from Teay Valley, West Virginia.

Joseph Silas Diller†—USGS—The origin of Camas Swale, a valley in western Oregon.

Grove Karl Gilbert†—USGS—An attempt to estimate the relative and absolute quantities of the principal sedimentary rocks.

† GSW Founder

Attendance: 26
Meeting Secretary's Minutes
Published account of meeting

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