CONTENTS Vll 



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



York [abstract] ; by George Halcott Chadwick 172 



Cayugan waterlimes of western New York [abstract] ; by 



George Halcott Chadwick 173 



Summary of geological investigations connected with the Cat- 

 skill 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 



Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society, 

 held at Albany, New York, December 27, 28, and 29, 1916 ; R. S. Bassler, 



Secretary 189 



Session of Wednesday, December 27 192 



Report of the Council 192 



Secretary's report 198 



Treasurer's report 194 



Appointment of Auditing Committee 195 



Election of officers and members 195 



Presentation of general papers on vertebrate paleontology 196 



Pliocene mammalian faunas of North America [abstract] ; by 



John C. Merriam 196 



Later Tertiary formations of western Nebraska ; by W. D. 



Matthew . . r 197 



Geologic tour of western Nebraska ; by H. F. Osborn 197 



The pulse of life ; by R. S. Lull 197 



Session of Thursday, December 28 197 



Plants associated with human remains at Vero, Florida [ab- 

 stract and discussion] ; by E. W. Berry 197 



Geologic significance of fossil rock-boring animals [abstract] ; 



by A. L. Barrows 199 



New genera of corals of the family of Cyathophyllidse [ab- 

 stract] ; by Amadeus W. Grabau 199 



Reef coral fauna of Carrizo Creek, Imperial County, Cali- 

 fornia, and its significance [abstract] ; by T, Wayland 



Vaughan 200 



Some morphological variations in Platystrophia [abstract] ; 



by Mrs. Eula D. McEwan 201 



The Ostracoda as guide fossils in the Silurian deposits of the 



Appalachian region [abstract] ; by E. O. Ulrich 202 



Report of the Auditing Committee 202 



Age of the American Morrison and East African Tendaguru 



formations [abstract] ; by Charles Schuchert 203 



External structure of Steganoblastus as revealed through gum 

 mountings and photomicrographic stereograms [abstract] ; 



by George H. Hudson 203 



Some structural features of a fossil embryo crinoid [abstract] ; 

 by George H. Hudson 204 



