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 Lower Paleozoic rocks of the southern New Mexico region [ab- 

 stract] ; by N. H. Darton 172 



Lockport-Guelph section in the barge canal at Rochester, New 



York [abstract] ; by George Halcott Ghadwick 172 



Cayugan waterlimes of western New York [abstract] ; by George 



Halcott Ghadwick 173 



Summary of geological investigations connected with the Catskill 



aqueduct [abstract] ; by Charles P. Berkey 174 



Vote of thanks 175 



Register of the Albany meeting, 1916 175 



Officers, Correspondents, and Fellows of the Geological Society of America. 177 



Session- of Wednesday, December 27 



The first general session of the Society was called to order at 9.45 

 o'clock a. m., Wednesday, December 27, in the Auditorium of the State 

 Museum Building, Albany, New York, by President John M. Clarke. A 

 brief introductory welcome was given by the President, followed by an 

 outline of the conditions and surroundings in which the Society finds 

 itself at this annual meeting. 



CONTRIBUTION TO HOVEY RELIEF EXPEDITION 



A letter was read from Dr. E. 0. Hovey, Secretary of the Society. The 

 only additional information available, received late in December, indi- 

 cates that Doctor Hovey is still ice-bound at Parkers Snow Bay, in Green- 

 land, and it is certain that he can not return to America before the sum- 

 mer of 1917. The President, on behalf of the Council, announced that 

 the Society had made a contribution toward the relief expedition which 

 was sent into the Arctic during the past summer, and that arrangements 

 were as complete as could be made for the safe return of the expedition. 



The report of the Council for the year ending November 30, 1916, was 

 presented as follows : 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



To the Geological Society of America, in kuenty-nintli annual meeting 

 assembled: 

 The regular annual meeting of the Council was held at Washington. 

 District of Columbia, in connection with the meeting of the Society, 

 December 28-30, 1915. 



