CONTENTS 129 



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 Terrestrial Oligocene of the Basin region and its relation to the 



marine Oligocene of the Pacific Coast province; by John C. 



Merriam 153 



Faunal relations of the San Lorenzo Oligocene to the Eocene in 



California [abstract] ; by Roy E. Dickerson 153 



Vaqueros of the Santa Monica Mountains of southern California 



[abstract] ; by Harold Hannibal 153 



Lower Miocene of Washington [abstract] ; by Charles E. Weaver. 153 

 Fauna of the Oligocene (?) of Oregon [abstract] ; by F. M. Ander- 

 son 154 



Faunal zones of the Martinez Eocene of California [abstract] ; by 



Roy E. Dickerson 154 



Comparison of the oysters of the lower and upper horizons of the 



Miocene of the Muir syncline [abstract] ; by William V. Cruess. 154 

 Antelopes in the fauna of Rancho la Brea [abstract] ; by Asa C. 



Chandler 155 



Vertebrate fauna of the Triassic limestones at Cow Creek, Shasta 



County, California [abstract] ; by H. C. Bryant 155 



Some physical features of Hawver Cave ; by J. C. Hawver 155 



Hawver Cave: its Pleistocene fauna [abstract] ; by Chester Stock. 155 

 Mammalian fauna of the Pleistocene beds at Manix in the Mohave 



Desert region [abstract] ; by John P. Buwalda 156 



Occurrence of mammalian remains^at Rancho la Brea [abstract] ; 



by R. C. Stroner 156 



Correlation of the Tertiary formations of the Pacific Coast and 



Basin regions of western United States; by J. C. Merriam 156 



Vertebrate fauna of the Orindan and Siestan formations [ab- 

 stract] ; by J. C. Merriam 156 



Session of Wednesday, Decembee 31, 1913 



The Section of Vertebrate Paleontology was called to order at 10.40 

 a. m. in advance of the Society's first general session. This became nec- 

 essary in order to allow time for the completion of the program, which 

 had been increased at the last moment by numerous papers on vertebrate 

 paleontology. E. S. Lull was elected chairman and W. D. Matthew secre- 

 tary of the section. The minutes are printed on pages 139 to 145. 



peesidential addeess 



At 2.30 p. m. a joint general session of the Geological Society of 

 America and the Paleontological Society was held in Gnyot Hall to hear 

 the retiring address by the President of the Paleontological Society, 

 Charles D. Walcott, who chose as his subject 



IX — Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. 25, 1913 



