134 PROCEEDINGS OF THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Skssion of Thursday, December 30 



Thursday mornijig at 9.30 tlie Society met in general session, with 

 President Loomis presiding. 



REPORT OF THE AUDITING COMMITTEE 



The report of the Auditing Committee was announced, attesting to the 

 correctness of the Treasurer's accounts; whereupon it was voted by the 

 Society that the report be accepted. 



PRESENTATION OF PAPERS 



The first paper on the program was an account of some interesting 

 plant remains, illustrated by lantern slides and presented Ijy tlie author. 



CYCADLIKE LEAVES FROM THE PERMIAN OF TEXAS 

 BY ADOLF C. NOE 



(Adstract) 



Among a number of fossil plants collected in 1920 in Baylor County, Texas, 

 by Mr. Paul Miller, Assistant Curator of Walker Museum, University of Chi- 

 cago, are a number of cycadlike leaves. The purpose of this, paper is to de- 

 sci-ibe and illustrate these leaves, which had been found in a bed of Permian 

 shale, and to compare them with similar leaves which Prof. G. R. Wieland has 

 described from the Lias of Mexico and with other early cycadeoid impressions. 

 Their main interest lies in the fact that they are among the earliest known 

 representatives of Cycadophytes. Since no seeds were discovered in connec- 

 tion with these leaves, it is impossible to determine whether they belong to 

 true Cycads, or Williamsonias, or Cycadofllicales, but the fronds strongly re- 

 semble those of true Cycads. 



The three following papers on paleobotany were then read by title: 



GENUS SEQUOIA IN THE MESOZOIC 

 BY E. C. JEFFREY 



{Ahstmct) 



The author has had the opportunity of examining for the first time large 

 quantities of twigs, with structure preserved, belonging to the genus Sequoia 

 as recognized in the American Cretaceous. It is clear, from the evidence here 

 furnished, that the organization of these twigs has little in common with that 

 of our living Sequoias and their allies. They in fact are the branches of 

 Araucarian conifers — a possibility long ago suggested by Saporta on the basis 

 of their external habit. A recent suggestion that these twigs are wrongly 

 identified has been withdrawn by its author, who now maintains that the 



