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WASHINGTON, D.C.
Meeting 71
Cosmos Club

Wednesday, January 12, 1898

Arnold Hague, President          Timothy William Stanton, Meeting Secretary

Grove Karl Gilbert†—USGS—[Showed a boulder from Ithaca, NY, whose surface showed fractures and other evidences of impact made during its glaciation.

George Homans Eldridge†—USGS—Asphalt deposits in Utah.

Arthur Coe Spencer—USGS—The Upper Cretaceous section of southwestern Colorado.

(Charles) Whitman Cross†—USGS—The geological vs. the petrographical classification of rocks.

† GSW Founder

Attendance: 40
Meeting Secretary's Minutes
Published account of meeting

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