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 Session of Saturday, December 29 479 



Cretaceous deposits of the northern Iralf of tlie Atlantic coastal plain ; by 

 W. B. Clark \ 479 



Surface formations of southern New Jersey; by R. D, Salisbury 483 



Register of the Baltimore meeting, 1894 490 



Officers and Fellows of the Geological Society of America 491 



Accessions to librarj^ to January, 1895 501 



Index to volume 6 517 



Session of Thursday, December 27 



The Society was called to order by the President, Professor T. C. 

 Chamberlin, at 10 o'clock a m, in the geological laboratory of Johns 

 Hopkins University, in which room all the sessions of the meeting were 

 held. The President introduced Dr Daniel C. Gilman, the President of 

 the University, who welcomed the Society in a cordial and graceful ad- 

 dress, referring particularly to the geological equipment of the University 

 and the recent opening of the building devoted wholly to geological 

 science, in which this meeting was held, the occasion being in a sense an 

 auspicious dedication of the building. He spoke with feeling of the loss 

 to geology, the Universit}^ and the Society by the death of Professor George 

 H. AVilliams. President Chamberlin responded in a few words of thanks 

 to President Gilman and the University. 



The report of the Council was called as the first item of business and 

 was submitted by the Secretary in print and distributed to the Fellows. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



To the Geological Society of America, 



in Seventh Annual Meeting assembled : 

 With this meeting begins the seventh year in the life of the Society. 

 The Council congratulates the Fellows upon the eminent success it has 

 achieved, and rejoices wdth them in the outlook for future prosperity 

 and usefulness. The influence of the Society has been marked in the 

 direction of more S3mipathetic cooperation and harmonious working 

 among the geologists of the continent. Twelve meetings have been held, 

 and the social profit of those gatherings has been even greater, perhaps, 

 than the scientific. The five handsome volumes of the Bulletin are evi- 

 dence of a working Fellowship and an active organization. Notwithstand- 

 ing the great cost of the Bulletin and the expenses of administration, due 



