BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 

 Vol. 25, pp. 127-156 March 30, 1914 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 

 PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY, HELD AT PEINCETON, 

 NEW JERSEY, DECEMBER 31, 1913, AND JANUARY 1, 1914. 



R. S. Bassler^ Secretary 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Session of Wednesday, December 31 129 



Presidential address : Cambrian of western North America ; by C. D. 



Walcott 130 



Symposium on "The Close of the Cretaceous and Opening of Eocene 



Time in North America" 130 



Session of Thursday, January 1 130 



Completion of symposium 130 



Report of the Council 130 



Secretary's report 131 



Treasurer's report ....'. 132 



Appointment of Auditing Committee 133 



Election of oflBcers and members 133 



New business and announcements 134 



Section of Invertebrate, Paleobotanic, and General Paleontology 135 



Use of crinoid arms in studies of phylogeny [abstract] ; by Elvira 



Wood 135 



Western extension of some Paleozoic faunas in southeastern Mis- 

 souri [abstract] ; by Stuart Weller and M. G. Mehl. . . 135 



Mounting of rock and fossil specimens with sulphur [abstract] ; 



by Chester A. Reeds 136 



Restoration of Paleozoic Cephalopods ; by Rudolph Ruedemann . . 136 

 Some new paleogeographic maps of North America [abstract] ; by 



A. W. Gral)au 136 



Devonic black shale of Michigan, Ohio, Canada, and western New 



York interpreted as a Paleozoic delta deposit ; by A. W. Grabau. 137 

 Lower Paleozoic section of the Alaska- Yukon boundary [ab- 

 stract] ; by L. D. Burling 137 



Cambrian brachiopoda, a study of their inclosing sediments [ab- 

 stract] ; by L. D. Burling 137 



Calcareous algse from the Silurian ; by Fritz Berckheimer 137 



Cambrian and Ordovician faunas of southeastern Newfoundland 



[abstract] ; by Gilbert Van Ingen 138 



"Laramie" ? Puerco, and Torrejon in the San Juan Basin, New 



Mexico [abstract] ; by William J. Sinclair 138 



Phylogenetic development of the hexactinellid dictyosponges, as 

 indicated by the ontogeny of an Upper Devonian species; by 

 John M. Clarke 138 



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