BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 

 Vol. 28, pp. 1-188, PLS. 1-5 March si, 1917 



PEOCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING 

 OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMEEICA, HELD AT 

 ALBANY, NEW YORK, DECEMBER 27, 28, AND 39-^1916. 



Charles P. Berkey^ Secretary pro tern. \^ Dtv •■' ' 



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 CONTENTS \!s^'iOm\ t 



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Session of Wednesday, December 27 5 



Contribution to Hovey relief expedition 5 



Report of the Council 5 



Secretary's report - . . 6 



Treasurer's report 8 



Editor's report 10 



Election of Auditiiis Committee 11 



Election of officers 12 



Election of Fellows 12 



Necrology 13 



Memorial of diaries A. Davis (with bihli(),i^raphy) ; by Alfred C. TiOne. 14 

 Memorial of Eugene W. Hilgard (with bibliography) ; by Eugene A. 



Smith 40 



Memorial of Frank A. Hill (with bibliounaphy) ; by Baird Halberstadt. 67 

 Memorial of Charles S. I'rosser (with bibliography) ; by E. R. Cumings 70 

 Memorial of C. Willard Hayes (with bibliography) ; by Alfred H. 



Brooks 81 



Announcement as to method of conducting the meeting 123 



Resolutions concerning National Research Council 123 



Titles and abstracts of papers presented before the morning session 



and discussions thereon 124 



Geometric plans of the earth, with special reference to the planet- 



esimal hypothesis [abstract] ; by Harry Fielding Reid 124 



Investigations into the magnitude of the forces which are required 

 to induce movements in various rocks under the conditions 

 which obtain in the deeper parts of the earth's crust [abstract] ; 



by Frank D. Adams and J. Austin Bancroft 125 



Metamorphism and its phases [abstract]; by Reginald A. Daly.. 126 

 Study of the recent activity of Mauna Loa [abstract] ; by Arthur 



L. Day 127 



Titles and abstracts of papers presented before the afternoon session 



and discussions thereon 128 



Ages of the Appalachian peneplains [abstract] ; by Eugene Wesley 



Shaw 128 



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