54 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AXX ARBOR MEETING 



FROXT RAXGES OF COLORADO AXD XEW MEXICO 

 BY WILLIS T. LEE 



Read in full. 



The papers comprising the symposium as listed above, including the 

 discussions, together with the presidential address of the retiring Presi- 

 dent, Charles Schuchert, will be printed in full in a subsequent number 

 of the Bulletin. 



The session adjourned at 4.50 o'clock. 



Session of Thursday Evening 

 division of geology and geography, national research council 



A round-table discussion of *^'The functions of the Division of Geology 

 and Geography, National Research Council," was held under the chair- 

 manship of Xevin M. Fenneman, at 7.30 p. m., in the University of 

 Michigan Union. 



For the purpose of introducing this discussion the chairman had pub- 

 lished in Science, December 1, a nine-column article setting forth the 

 nature of the organization of the Research Council and of the procedure 

 in the Division of Geology and Geography. The discussion on the con- 

 tents of this paper and the general work of the division was opened by 

 David White, followed by T. W. Vaughan, John M. Clarke, Alfred C. 

 Lane, W. H. Hobbs, A. C. Lawson, and others. 



Speakers pointed out the opportunities for suitable activity by the 

 division and, to some extent, recounted its successful achievements. The 

 import of the discussion was that tlie Research Council is not an operat- 

 ing concern equipj^ed for and engaged in the conduct of researches, but 

 rather a mode of coordinated effoit of the geologists of the United States. 

 For tliis purpose it affords conveniences, including chairman and office 

 force. It Avas pointed out that the eifect of providing such facilities is 

 not very different from that which would result from the support of a 

 chairman and office at the disposal of active committees of the Geological 

 Society of America. Twenty-two of the twenty-six members of the 

 division are Fellows of the Society. 



THE SMOKER 



At 8.30 p. m. a smoker was given by the University of Michigan to 

 the Fellows of the Geological Society of America, the Paleontological 



