BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 

 Vol. 25. pp. 1-118, PL8. 1-3 March 3o, i914 



PEOCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING 

 OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OP AMEEICA, HELD AT 

 PEINCETON, NEW JEESEY, DECEMBEE 30 AND 31, 1913, 

 AND JANUAEY 1, 1914. 



Edmund Otis Hovey, Secretary 



CONTENTS 



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Session of Tuesday, December 30 4 



Election of Auditing Committee 5 



Election of officers 5 



Election of Fellows 6 



Memorial of William M. Fontaine ; by T. L. Watson 6 



Memorial of Thomas Moore Jackson ; by I. C. White 13 



Events leading up to the organization of the Geological Society of 



America ; by J. J. Stevenson 15 



Review of the early history of the Society ; by Herman L. Fairchild . . 17 



History of the Bulletin ; by J. Stanley-Brown 24 



Review of the formation of geological societies in the United States ; 



by N. H. Winchell 27 



Titles and abstracts of papers presented in general session and dis- 

 cussions thereon '. .* 30 



Mechanics of formation of arcuate mountains [abstract] ; by W. H. 



Hobbs 30 



Early Tertiary glaciation in the San Juan region of Colorado [ab- 

 stract and discussion] ; by Wallace Walter Atwood. 31 



Origin of pillow lavas [abstract and discussion] ; by J. Volney Lewis. . 32 

 Titles and abstracts of papers presented before the First Section and 



discussions thereon 33 



Earthquake sea waves [abstract and discussion] ; by Harry Fielding 



Reid 33 



Recent earthquakes in Panama and their causes ; by Donald F. Mac- 

 Donald 34 



Criticism of the Hayfordian conception of isostasy regarded from the 



standpoint of geology [abstract] ; by W. H. Hobbs 34 



Earth-movements in the Minnesota portion of the Lake Agassiz basin 

 during and since the lake occupancy [abstract and discussion] ; by 



Frank Leverett 34 



Time measures in the Niagara Gorge and their application to Great 



Lake history [abstract and discussion] ; by Frank B. Taylor 35 



Illustration of intraformational corrugation [abstract and discus- 

 sion] ; by John M. Clarke 37 



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