CONTENTS 



rage 

 Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Geological Society 

 of America, held at Princeton, New Jersey, December 30 and 31, 1913, 



and January 1, 1914 ; Edmund Otis Hovey, Secrctarij 1 



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. Fair- 

 child ; 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 



discussions thereon 30 



Mechanics of formation of arcuate mountains [abstract] ; by 



. W. H. HoBBS 30 



Early Tertiary glaciation in the San Juan region of Colorado 



[abstract 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. 



MacDonald 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 dis- 

 cussion] ; by Fbank 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 



Illustrations of the recent exposure of the Saratoga Springs [ab- 

 stract] ; by John M. Clarke 38 



An alternative explanation of the origin of the Saratoga mineral 



waters [abstract and discussion] ; by R. Ruedemann ; 38 



Titles and abstracts of papers presented before the Second Section 

 and discussions thereon 39 



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