BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 



Vol. 5, pp. 549-665, PLS. 20, 21 APRIL 30, 1894 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING, HELD AT 

 BOSTON, DECEMBER 27, 28 AND 29, 1893 



Herman LeRoy Fairchild, Secretary 



CONTEXTS 



Page 



.Session of Wednesday, December 27 550 



Report of the Treasurer 550 



Election of Officers 552 



Election of Fellows 553 



Amendments to the Constitution 553 



Amendments to the By-Laws 553 



Fourth Annual Report of the Committee on Photographs 554 



Geological Writings of Alexander Winchell 557 



Geological Writings of Charles Albert Ashburner; by Frank A. Hill 564 



Geological Writings of David Honeyman ; by J. G. McGregor 567 



Geological AVritings of George H. Cook ; by John C. Smock 569 



Geological Writings of Ric^iard Owen ; by Joseph Stanley-Brown 571 



Johann David Schoepf and his Contributions to North American Geology ; 



by George H. Williams 591 



The later Tertiary lacustrine Formations of the West [abstract] ; by W. B. 



Scott * 594 



ession of Wednesday Evening, December 27 596 



Session of Thursday, December 28 •. 596 



Yolcanite, an Anorthoclase-augite Rock chemically like the Dacites ; by 



William H. Hobbs 598 



Geographical Work for State geological Surveys; by William M. Davis. . . 604 



Session of Friday, Decem])er 29 609 



Report of the Council 609 



Secretary's Report 609 



Treasurer's Report 614 



Editor's Report 614 



Session of Friday Evening, December 29 : 619 



The ancient Strait at Nipissing ; by F. B. Taylor 620 



Microscopic Structure of silicic )us Oolite ; by E. O. Hovey 627 



Register of the Boston Meeting, 1893 630 



Officers and Fellows of the Geological Society of America 631 



Constitution and By-Laws 641 



Rules relating to Publication 647 



Index to Volume 5 653 



LXXVII— Bur.T.. Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. 5, 1893. (549) 



