PROCEEDINGS FOR 1917 LUI 



Professor Prince and Professor Harrison were appointed to act 

 with the Council with regard to the election of new Fellows. 



A resolution was passed by the Section that it be a recommen- 

 dation to Council that three new Fellows be elected to the Section 

 next year one of these to be a geologist and two to be biologists. 



On motion a resolution was passed by the Section recommending 

 to Council that Dr. Robert Bell be placed on the retired list. 



The President appointed Professors Coleman and Mackenzie a 

 committee to act with a similar committee of Section III to determine 

 the status of mineralogists in the Society. 



The committee recommended and the recommendation was 

 carried by the section that in the opinion of Section IV the term 

 Geology be understood to include mineralogy in the title of Section 

 IV; also that the membership of the section be increased from 50 

 to 53 the three additional Fellows to be allocated to the Geological 

 side. 



Twenty-seven papers were read at the session, the titles of which 

 are appended. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



John J. Mackenzie, 



Secretary. 



List of Papers Presented in Section IV 



1.— Presidential Address. By J. Playfair McMurrich, F.R.S.C. 



2. — Bacteria in Frozen Soils in Quebec. By J. Vanderleck, Ch.E. 

 Presented by F. C. Harrison, B.S.A., D.Sc, F.R.S.C. 



3. — ^A Slime-Producing Organism from Water. By Wilfrid Sad- 

 ler, B.S.A. Presented by F. C. Harrison, B.S.A., D.Sc, F.R.S.C. 



4. — Frozen Ground in Yukon Territory. By J. B. Tyrrell, 

 F.R.S.C. 



5. — ^A Systematic Analytical Study of the North American Con- 

 vallariacese, except Polygonatum, Trillium and Medeola, considered 

 with regard to their origin, through Discontinuous Variation. By 

 R. Ruggles Gates, Ph.D., F.L.S. (Abstract). Presented by A. H. 

 MacKay, LL.D., F.R.S.C. 



6. — The Upper Devonian Plants of Kiltorcan, with Descrip- 

 tions of Some New Species and Forms. By G. F. Matthew, LL.D., 

 D.Sc, F.R.S.C. 



7. — Note on some Crustacean Forms Occurring in the Plankton 

 of Passamoquoddy Bay. By J. Playfair McMurrich, F.R.S.C. 



8. — The Histogenesis of Vertebrate Striated Muscle, including a 

 Contribution to our Knowledge Regarding the Structure and Func- 



