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[N. S. Vol. XXVII. No. 689 



Faults and Folds of the Grand Canyon 

 District: Douglas Wilson Johnson, 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



Coon Butte, Arizo^xa: John B. Hastings, 

 Denver, Colo. 



The Occurrence of Petroleu-m in the Coast 

 Counties of California: Ralph Abnold, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Stream Conglomerate in the Mt. Diablo 

 Range, Calif. : R. Arnold and R. Ander- 

 son. 



Distribution of Gold in the Saddle and 

 Leg Region of the Meguma Series of 

 Nova Scotia: J. Edmund Woodman, 

 Halifax, N. S. 



Probable Age of Meguma Series, Nova 

 Scotia: J. Edmund Woodman, Halifax, 



N. S. 



The Giant Springs at Great Falls, Mon- 

 tana: C. A. Fisher. (Introduced by C. 

 W. Hayes.) 



After the end of the reading of formal 

 papers, Dr. C. W. Hayes informally ex- 

 hibited a set of photographs of the fossil 

 woods of Arizona together with notes on 

 them by Dr. David White, paleobotanist to 

 the United States Geological Survey. Then 

 President W. G. Tight exhibited and de- 

 scribed a series of stereopticon slides illus- 

 trating glacial and other phenomena 

 among the high Andes of Bolivia and the 

 scientific progi'am was declared finished. 



The, question of endeavoring to form a 

 General Committee on Geological Nomen- 

 clature was thoroughly discussed by C. R. 

 Van Hise, A. C. Lane, A. C. Lawson, A. P. 

 Coleman, G. K. Gilbert, H. E. Gregory, 

 R. D. George, C. W. Hayes and W. G. 

 Tight, and the following action was taken 

 unanimously : 



The Geological Society of America 

 recommends to the various organizations 

 concerned : 



1. That a general Committee on Geo- 

 logical Nomenclature be formed; one 

 fifth of its members to be from the United 

 States Geological Survey, one fifth from 

 the Canadian Geological Survey organiza- 

 tions, one fifth from Mexico and one fifth 

 from geologists at large selected by the 

 Geological Society of America. 



2. That this general committee have au- 

 thority to appoint special committees on 

 nomenclature from within or without its 

 own membership for the investigation of 

 the particular questions referred to them, 

 the special committees to report back their 

 conclusions to the general committee with 

 full reasons therefor; the different sec- 

 tions to report in turn to their own organi- 

 zations. 



3. That the fact that any subject is 

 under discussion by this general committee 

 be made known to the scientific public at 

 large. 



The purpose of the recommendations is 

 to provide a source from which any geolo- 

 gist may on application obtain advice re- 

 garding nomenclature. 



The following resolutions of thanks were 

 presented by Mr. G. K. Gilbert, seconded 

 by President Van Hise and heartily 

 adopted. 



The Geological Society of America 

 acknowledges with gTatitude the many and 

 substantial courtesies extended to it by the 

 citizens and the Commercial Club of the 

 City of Albuquerque. 



The society also tenders its sincere and 

 emphatic thanks to the University of New 

 Mexico and particularly to President W. 

 G. Tight for the hospitality it has enjoyed, 

 a hospitality which included arrangements 

 of exceptional completeness and attentions 

 most assiduous. 



The following fellows of the society 

 registered as being in attendance at the 

 meeting: Charles R. Van Hise, H. B. Pat- 

 ton, George E. Collie, G. K. Gilbert, George 



