326 DRAKE — THE GEOLOGY OF IXDIAX TERRITORY. [Sept. :i, 



J. Sergeant Price, Esq., Treasurer of the Societ}^, at Cape 

 May, 'N. J., on August IB, 1897, tet. Q6. 



A communication for tlie Transactions was presented from 

 Mr. John Yan Denburgh, entitled, " Some Experiments with 

 the Saliva of the Gila Monster {Ueloderma suspectum).^^ 



The foUowino' communications were read : 



By Dr. IS". F. Drake, a paper on " The Geolog}^ of the 

 Indian Territory." 



Mr. Clarence Alve, " Magnetism in Space." 



The Finance Committee presented a report, announcing the 

 death of the Treasurer of the Society, J. Sergeant Price, Esq. 



It was ordered " that the Finance Committee be and is here- 

 by authorized to draw upon the funds of this Society for the 

 money necessary to pay the current expenses, and to receive 

 its income during the vacancy in the office of Treasurer of 

 the vSociety, and the said Committee is authorized to have 

 possession of the financial papers and securities of the Soci- 

 ety, until such vacancy shall be filled." 



The Society was adjourned by the presiding officer. 



A GEOLOGICAL RECONNAISSANCE OF THE COAL 

 FIELDS OF THE INDIAN TERRITORY.^ 



BY XOAH FIELDS DRAKE, 



{Read September 3, 1S97.) 



INTRODUCTION. 



During the spring, summer and fall of 1896, the writer spent six 

 months making a geological reconnaissance of the larger part of 

 the Coal Measures and adjacent formations of the Indian and Okla- 

 lioma Territories. The best maps that could then be had of the 

 region were exceedingly inaccurate. In connection with geologic 

 observations, sketch maps were therefore made of areas that were 

 especially important. Nearly all the area south and east of the 

 Canadian river, shown on the accompanying map, was sketched 



^ A thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, presented to the Department 

 of Geology of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University, May, 1897. 



