2 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOSTON MEETING 



Pago 

 Features of the shifts of land and sea-level in the Atlantic and 

 Gulf Coastal Plain during Pleistocene and post-Pleistocene time 



[abstract and discussion] ; by T. W. Vaughan 113 



Field experiment in isostasy [abstract and discussion] ; by C. W. 



Brown 114 



Post-glacial river changes in Rhode Island and continental tilt 



[abstract and discussion] ; by C. W. Brown 114 



Calcination volcanoes [abstract]; by W. H. Hobbs 115 



Relations of fault-block mountains to folded chains [abstract and 



discussion] ; by J. B. Woodworth 115 



Structure of some mountains in New Mexico [abstract] ; by Nel- 

 son H. Darton 116 



Nature of Paleozoic crustal instability in eastern North America 



[title] ; by Charles Schuchert 116 



^ Stratigraphy and diastrophism of western Newfoundland [title] ; 



by Charles Schuchert and Carl O. Dunbar 116 



Large fault in western New York; by George H. Chadwick 117 



, Experimental studies on the formation of jointing planes [ab- 

 stract] ; by Fred E. Wright 120 



Structural features of the southern Ouachita Mountains, Okla- 

 homa [abstract and discussion] ; by Charles W. Honess 121 



Heart Mountain overthrust, near Cody, Wyoming [abstract] ; by 



D. F. Hewett 122 



Presidential address: Earth sciences as the background of his- 

 tory [title] ; by John C. Merriam 122 



Wonders of Bryce Canyon, Utah [title] ; by J. W. Pack 122 



Annual smoker 122 



Session of Tuesday, December 30 122 



Report of the Auditing Committee 123 



Symposium on researches in sedimentation 123 



Researches in sedimentation [title] ; by T. Wayland Vaughan 123 



The value of terrestrial organisms in the interpretation of sedi- 

 ments [title] ; by J. P. Buwalda 123 



Mechanical researches in the investigation of sediments [title] ; 



by Eugene Wesley Shaw 123 



Chemical researches in the investigation of sediments [title] ; by 



H. E. Merwin 123 



Diagenesis in sedimentation [title]; by Charles Schuchert 123 



Titles and abstracts of papers presented before the morning session 



and discussions thereon 123 



Preliminary results of a study of the San Francisco Bay sedi- 

 ments [abstract and discussion] ; by George D. Louderback. . . 123 

 Till argillites (pellodites), Precambrian, Permian, and Pleisto- 

 cene [abstract] ; by Alfred C. Lane 125 



Titles and abstracts of papers presented before the afternoon session 



of Tuesday 125 



Mississippian tuff in the Ouachita Mountain region [abstract and 

 discussion] ; by H. D. Miser 125 



