Vlll BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 



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An early Pliocene Monodactylous horse [abstract] ; by Ed- 

 ward L. Tkoxell 151 



Session of Thursday, December 30 152 



Preliminary report of the committee on the nomenclature of 

 the skull elements in the Tetrapoda [abstract] ; by W. K. 

 Gregory 152 



Origin of the sternum in the reptiles and mammals [ab- 

 stract] ; by S. W. Williston 152 



Mounted skeleton of Caivis dims, with remarks on the meth- 

 ods of reconstruction of extinct animals [title] ; by W. D. 

 Matthew 153 



Mounted skeleton of Blastocerus pampecus — a fossil deer from 

 Argentina [title] ; by W. D. Matthew 153 



Skeletons of Diplodocus and Apatasaurus in the Carnegie Mu- 

 seum [abstract] ; by W. J. Holland 153 



Section of Invertebrate and General Paleontology 153 



Summary of the results of investigations of the Floridian and 

 Bahaman shoal-water corals [abstract] ; by T. Wayland 

 Vaughan 154 



Correlation of the Upper Cretaceous deposits of the Atlantic 

 and Gulf Coastal Plain [abstract] ; by L. W. Stephenson. 154 



Session of Thursday, December 30 155 



Report of the Auditing Committee 155 



Mississippian section in west-central Kentucky [abstract] ; 

 by Chakles Butts 155 



Stratigraphic and faunal succession of the Chester group in 

 Illinois and Kentucky [abstract] ; by Stuart Weller 156 



Comparison of the Yellowstone Park alga? with Algonkian 

 forms [abstract] ; by Charles D. Walcott 156 



The Chester controversy [abstract] ; by E. O. Ulrich 157 



Stratigraphy of the Canadian Cordillera [abstract] ; by Lan- 

 caster D. Burling 158 



New species of the Mesonacida 1 , with twenty-nine rudimentary 

 segments posterior to the fifteenth [abstract] ; by Lancas- 

 ter D. Burling 158 



Comparison of European and American early Paleozoic for- 

 mations [abstract] ; by Amadeus W. Grabau 159 



Subdivisions of the Traverse group of Michigan and its rela- 

 tion to other mid-Devonic formations [abstract] ; by Ama- 

 deus W. Grabau 159 



Some fossil alga? from the oil-yielding shales of the Green 

 River formation of Colorado and Utah [abstract] ; by 

 Charles A. Davis 159 



Former extension of the Devonian formations in southeast- 

 ern Missouri [abstract] ; by Stuart Weller 160 



Bottom control of the composition of marine faunas as illus- 

 trated by dredging in the Bay of Fundy [abstract] ; by 

 E. M. Kindle ..,.,.., 160 



