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lished in one of their docunients. This, 

 together with the widely favorable criti- 

 cism it has received, indicates that it will 

 probably be widely adopted. The Commit- 

 tee recommended that a standing commit- 

 tee of two be appointed to take the further 

 interests of the option in charge, to keep 

 it in touch with educational progress, and 

 readjust it to changing conditions; and 

 that a new edition be prepared for distri- 

 bution. The report was adopted, and as 

 the committee, the former committee, Pro- 

 fessors Ganong and Lloyd, was reap- 

 pointed. 



W. P. Ganong, 



Secretary. 



THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF TEE GOR- 

 DILLERAN SECTION OF THE GEOLOG- 

 ICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 



The Cordilleran Section of the Geo- 

 logical Society of America held its tliird 

 annual meeting in the Academy of 

 Sciences, San Francisco, on December 30 

 and 31, 1901. In the absence of the chair- 

 man, Professor W. C. Knight, of "Wyo- 

 ming, Mr. H. W. Turner was elected tem- 

 porary chairman. The secretary reported 

 the following rules as having been adopted 

 by the Council of the Society at Denver, 

 August 26, 1901 : 



1. Officers. — The officers of the Cordil- 

 leran Section shall be a Chairman and a 

 Secretary. The latter shall also perform 

 the duties of an accounting officer with 

 reference to the expenses of meetings. 



The officers of the Section shall be resi- 

 dent mthin the geographical limits of the 

 Section. A President or Vice-President of 

 the Society shall be, ex officio, Chairman of 

 the Section whenever present at a meeting. 



2. Geographical Limits.— For purposes 

 of scientific fellowship and discussion the 

 limits of the Section shall correspond with 

 the limits of the general Society, and the 

 meetings of the Section shall be open to all 



Fellows of the Society for presentation of 

 papers, either in person or by proxy. For 

 purposes of administration the membership 

 of the Section shaU be limited to those 

 Fellows residing west of the 104th merid- 

 ian. 



3. Membership.— l>io person not a mem- 

 ber of the Society may become a member 

 of the Section. Members may invite con- 

 tributions to the discussions at their meet- 

 ings under the same rules as those applied 

 to meetings of the Society. 



4. Date of Meetings. — The meetings of 

 the Section may be held at any time, sub- 

 ject to approval by the Council of the So- 

 ciety (Article 4 of Constitution). All 

 notices and programs of meetings shall be 

 sent to all Fellows of the Society. 



5. Expenses. — The expenses of the Sec- 

 tion, so far as they shall be paid from the 

 general fund of the Society, shall be lim- 

 ited to the ordinary economical expenses 

 of the meetings. 



6. Publications. — All papers presented 

 to the Section shall be available for publi- 

 cation in the Bulletin of the Geological 

 Society of America under the rules gov- 

 erning publication by the Society. 



The officers elected for the ensuing year 

 were: H. W. Turner, of San Francisco, 

 Chairman, and Andrew C. Lawson, of 

 Berkeley, Secretary. An executive com- 

 mittee consisting of the chairman, secre- 

 tary and Professor J. C. Merriam was ap- 

 pointed. 



Resolutions were adopted expressive of 

 the sense of loss sustained by the Section 

 in the deaths of Professors Joseph Le 

 Conte and E. W. Claypole. 



The following papers were read and dis- 

 cussed partly in the Academy of Sciences 

 and partly at the University of California, 

 where the Section met after the opening 

 session, for the purpose of viewing illustra- 

 tive specimens and lantern slides : 



