BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 



Vol. 31, pp. 197-232 March 31, 1920 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



PROCEEDIXGS OF THE ELEYE^TTH ANNUAL MEETING OF 

 THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY, HELD AT BOSTON, 

 MASSACHUSETTS, DECEMBER 30-31, 1919. 



II. S. Bassler, Secretary 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Session of Tuesday, December 30 199 



Report of the Couucil 199 



Secretary's report 199 



Treasurer's report 201 



Appointment of Auditing Committee 201 



Election of officers and members 202 



New business 203 



Necrology 20r> 



Presentation of papers on paleontology 204 



Supposed fossil horse from the late Pleistocene found at Monroe. 

 Orange County, New York [abstract] ; by John M. Clarke and 



W. D. Matthew 204 



Recent restorations of fossil invertebrates : by John M. Clarke . . 204 



The "good use" of the term "fossil" ; by Richard M. Field 204 



Paleontological collections in the vicinity of Boston [abstrnctl : 



by Percy E. Raymond 205 



Value of foraminifera in stratigraphic correlation [abstract] ; by 



Joseph A, Cushman 205 



Stratigraphic significance of Orthaidav [abstract] ; by C. Wythe 



Cooke 206 



Presence of Upper Silurian sandstone in Essex County, north- 

 eastern Massachusetts [abstract] ; by A. F. Foerste 206 



Intercalation of thecal plates in Holocystites in connection with 

 the criteria upon which species can be distinguished [abstract] ; 



by A. F. Foerste 207 



Revision of the Anticosti section [abstract] ; by W. H. Twenhofel 209 



Report of the Auditing Committee 209 



Studies in variation and a proposed classification of variants : Presi- 

 dential address by Robert T. Jackson 209 



Hydrozoan affinities of Herpulites Sowerby [abstract] ; by \V. 



Armstrong Price 210 



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