196 PROCEEDINGS OF THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



NEW MEMBERS 



Walter Scott Adkins, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, Texas. 



Antonio Pastor Giraud, care Transcontinental de Petroleo, S. A., Tanipico, 



Mexico. 

 A. S. Romer, Department of Geology, Columbia University, New York City. 

 Arthur J. Tieje, Department of Geology, University of Colorado, Boulder, 



Colorado. 



NEW NOMINATIONS AND ELECTION TO MEMBERSHIP 



Three nominations to membership which had arrived too late for the 

 printed ballot and which had received the approval of the Council were 

 then presented to the Society : 



Miss Alva C. Ellisor, A. B. University of Texas, paleontologist of 

 the Humble Oil and Kefining Company, 803 Humble Building, Houston, 

 Texas. Proposed by B. L. Clark and Chester Stock. 



Fred Willis Darby, engaged in care and preparation of the Marsh 

 collection of fossil vertebrates since 1908, Peabody Museum, Yale Uni- 

 versity, New Haven, Connecticut. Proposed by R. S. Lull, Charles 

 Schuchert, and C. 0. Dunbar. 



Frank Harris McLearn, Ph. D. Yale (1917), associate invertebrate 

 paleontologist, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada. Proposed 

 by Charles Schuchert, E. M. Kindle, and R S. Lull. 



It was then voted that the By-Laws be suspended and that the vote of 

 the Society for the election to membership of these three nominees be cast 

 by the Secretary. 



There being no further business, the Society proceeded to the reading 

 of scientific papers in general session, with President Stanton in the chair. 



PRESENTATION OF PAPERS 



The first paper on the program, dealing with the molluscan genus 

 Salterella and showing its possible cephalopod affinities, was presented by 

 the author and illustrated by drawings. Discussion by Messrs. Foerste, 

 Ulrich, and Chadwick. 



NATURE OF SALTERELLA 

 BY THOMAS H. CLARK 



(Abstract) 



Since 1863 the genus Salterella has been included in the class Pteropoda, 

 although its position there has always been in some doubt. A large collection 

 of specimens from Levis, Quebec, has enabled the writer to make a more or 

 less thorough study of these little fossils. Although in some specimens ex- 



