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Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Geological Society
of America, held at New Haven, Connecticut, December 28, 29, 30, and
31, 1912; EDMUND OTIS HOVEY, Secretary..
Session of Saturday, December 28.
Report of the Council...
Secretary's report..
Treasurer's report.
Editor's report......
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2
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Memoir of Clarence Edward Dutton (with bibliography); by J. S.
DILLER
Memoir of W J McGee (with bibliography); by F. H. KNOWLTON.
Memoir of Ralph Stockman Tarr (with bibliography); by J. B.
WOODWORTH
Memoir of Ernest Robertson Buckley (with bibliography); by
H. A. BUEHLER......
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10
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Titles of papers presented in general session and names of dis-
putants
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Titles of papers presented before the first section and names of
disputants
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Titles of papers presented before the second section and names of
disputants ....
Titles of papers presented before the third section and names of
Presidential address...
Session of Sunday, December 29..
James Dwight Dana Centenary..
Introductory remarks by ARTHUR T. HADLEY.
Dana, the Man, by WILLIAM NORTH RICE.
Dana, the Teacher, by EDMUND OTIS HOVEY.
Dana, the Geologist, by GEORGE P. MERRILL.
Dana, the Zoologist, by JOHN M. CLARKE.
Session of Monday, December 30..
Report of Auditing Committee...
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disputants ...
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Titles of papers presented before the combined sections and names
of disputants..
Register of the New Haven meeting, 1912...
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Officers, correspondents, and Fellows of the Geological Society of
America
79
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Cordilleran Section
of the Geological Society of America, held at Stanford University, Cali-
fornia, April 5, 1912; George D. LOUDERBACK, Secretary........
Session of Friday, April 5......
91
Resolutions concerning nominations and tenure of office.
Election of officers.....
92
Representation on the Council...
Dust storms in China [abstract]; by N. F. DRAKE..
Coal resources of China [abstract]; by N. F. DRAKE.
Geological section of a portion of the Coast ranges in the eastern
part of San Luis Obispo County, California [abstract]; by
BRUCE MARTIN....
Validity of the law of rational indices of crystal faces [abstract];
by AUSTIN F. ROGERS...
Gypsum and anhydrite from the Ludwig mine, Lyon County, Ne-
vada [abstract]; by AUSTIN F. ROGERS...
Trachytic perite from Lone Hill, near San José, California [ab-
stract]; by G. E. POSTMA.
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Fluting of crystalline rocks in the tropics [abstract]; by J. C.
BRANNER
Influence of wind on the accumulation of oil-bearing rocks [ab-
stract]; by J. C. BRANNER....
General geology of the San José and Mount Hamilton quadrangles
[abstract]; by E. C. TEMPLETON....
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Iron-ore deposit at Barth, Nevada [abstract]; by J. CLAUDE JONES 96
Ventura County oil fields [abstract]; by ROBERT W. MORAN......
Annual dinner.....
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General features of the structure of the bedrock complex of the
Sierra Nevada [abstract]; by GEORGE D. LOUDERBACK....
Register of the Stanford University Meeting....
Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society,
held at New Haven, Connecticut, December 30 and 31, 1912; R. S.
BASSLER, Secretary.....
Announcement as to presentation of papers..
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Alpheus Hyatt and his principles of research [abstract]; by
ROBERT T. JACKSON.
Restoration of Tertiary fossils [abstract]; by WILLIAM B. SCOTT. 105
Paleozoic Arachnida-scorpions and spiders [abstract]; by ALEX-
ANDER PETRUNKEVITCH.
Presidential address.
106
Preliminary discussion of the stratigraphy and age of the Pyro-
therium beds of Patagonia [abstract]; by FREDERICK B. LOOMIS. 107
Organization of a Section on Vertebrate Paleontology.
The cataract; a new formation at the base of the Siluric in On-
tario and New York [abstract]; by CHARLES SCHUCHERT.
The Medina problem [abstract]; by E. O. ULRICH....
Session of Tuesday, December 31......
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108
Paleontological notes: 1. Polyphyletic genera. 2. An illustration
of Waagen's theory of mutations [abstract]; by A. W. GRABAU. 109
Nomenclature, structure, and classification of the Cremacrinida
[abstract]; by E. O. ULRICH..
.... 109
Richmond formations of the provinces of Ontario and Quebec in
Canada [abstract]; by A. F. FOERSTE...
Crinoid genus Scyphocrinus and its bulbous root Camarocrinus
[abstract]; by FRANK SPRINGER...
Correlation of the Middle Ordovician formations of Ontario and
Quebec [abstract]; by P. E. RAYMOND...
The Alexandrian series in Missouri and Illinois-stratigraphy and
paleontology, Part I [abstract]; by T. E. SAVAGE..
Notes on the origin of certain Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordo-
vician sediments of Center County, Pennsylvania [abstract]; by
THOMAS C. BROWN....
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Contributions to the black shale problem [abstract]; by CHARLES
BUTTS
Spiriferoids of the Lake Minnewanka section, Alberta [abstract];
by H. W. SHIMER.....
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Papers on paleobotany..
114
Paleobotanical study of the coal-bearing rocks of the Raton Mesa
region of Colorado and New Mexico [abstract]; by F. H.
KNOWLTON
Status of the study of the fossil floras of the Atlantic Coastal
plain [abstract]; by EDWARD W. BERRY...
Roots in the underclays of coals [abstract]; by DAVID WHITE... 114
Coralline algæ in an Ordovician dolomite [abstract]; by ELIOT
BLACKWELDER
Note on a process of fossilization in the Paleozoic lycopods [ab-
stract]; by E. M. KINDLE.
Preliminary correlation of the Cretaceous and Tertiary floras of
Alaska [abstract]; by ARTHUR HOLLICK.....
Minutes of sectional meeting of vertebrate paleontology.
Relationship of the Tupaiida and of Eocene Lemurs, especially
Notharctus [abstract]; by W. K. GREGORY...
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117
The Yale expedition of 1912 [abstract]; by R. S. LULL. . . .
Certain theoretical considerations affecting phylogeny and corre-
lation [abstract]; by W. D. MATTHEW....
Homology of the “alisphenoid" and "lachrymal" in recent, and
fossil vertebrates [abstract]; by W. K. GREGORY....
Cuban fossil mammals; preliminary note [abstract]; by W. D.
MATTHEW
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Devonian fishes of Missouri [abstract]; by E. B. BRANSON.
Brain structure of fossil fishes from the Caney shales [abstract];
by C. R. EASTMAN...
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... 119
New Plesiosaurian genus from the Niobrara Cretaceous of Ne-
braska [abstract]; by S. W. WILLISTON and Roy L. MOODIE.... 120
Register of the New Haven meeting, 1912...... 121
Officers, correspondents, and members of the Paleontological Society.. 122
Minutes of the Pacific Coast Section of the Paleontological Society... 126
Eocene of San Pedro Point, San Mateo County, California [ab-
stract]; by ROY E. DICKERSON...
Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez and Tejon
south of Mount Diablo, California [abstract]; by Roy E. DICK-
ERSON
Eocene of the Coalinga-Cantua District, Fresno County, Califor-
nia [abstract]; by J. A. TAFF.....
Suggested paleontologic correlation between Continental Miocene
deposits of the Mohave region and marine Tertiary beds of San
Joaquin Valley, California [abstract]; by JOHN C. MERRIAM and
ROBERT W. PACK.....
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128
The biogenetic law illustrated in the development of fossil ceph-
alopods [abstract]; by JAMES PERRIN SMITH..
Faunal relations of the Upper Neocene in the Sargent oil fields,
California [abstract]; by BRUCE MARTIN.....
Monterey series on the south side of Mount Diablo, California
[abstract]; by W. S. W. KEW and R. C. STONER..
San Pablo formation on the north side of Mount Diablo, Califor-
nia [abstract]; by BRUCE L. CLARK...
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130
Faunal zones of the San Pablo formation east of Walnut Creek,
near Mount Diablo, California [abstract]; by JOHN P. BUWALDA 130
Preliminary inquiry into the geological significance of rock-bear-
ing shells [abstract]; by ALBERT L. BARROW.....
Discussion of the Jurassic age of the slates at Slate Springs,
Monterey County, California [abstract]; by CHARLES H. DAVIS. 131
Preliminary report on the Tertiary paleontology and stratigraphy
of southwestern Washington [abstract]; by CHARLES E. WEAVER 131
Evidence indicating an unconformity at the base of the Tamiosoma
zone in the Coalinga oil field, California [abstract]; by JOHN H.
RUCKMAN
132
Contributions to Avian paleontology from the Pacific coast of
North America [abstract]; by LOYE HOLMES MILLER.
Pleistocene geology of New York State; Presidential address by HERMAN
L. FAIRCHILD.
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