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 I'roceedings of the Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of tlie Geological Society 

 of America, held at Albany, New York, December 27, 28, and 29, 1916; 



Charles P. Berkey, Secretary/ pro tern 1 



Session of Wednesday, December 27 5 



Contribution to Hovey relief expedition 5 



Report of the Council 5 



Secretary's report 6 



Treasurer's report S 



Editor's report 10 



Election of Auditing Committee ^ 1] 



Election of officers 12 



Election of Fellows 12 



Necrology 13 



V Memorial of Charles A. Davis (with bibliography) ; by Alfred C. 



Lane 14 



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



A, Smith 40 



K Memorial of Frank A. Hill (with bibliography) ; by Baird Halber- 



STADT 67 



/^Memorial of Charles S. Prosser (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 128 



Titles and abstracts of papers presented before the morning session 



and discussions thereon 124 



Geometric plans of the earth, with special reference to the 



planetesimal hypothesis [abstract] ; by Harry Fielding Reid 124 

 Investigations into the magnitude of the forces which are re- 

 quired to induce movements in various rocks under the con- 

 ditions 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 ses- 

 sion and discussions thereon 128 



Ages of the Appalachian peneplains [abstract] ; by Eugene 



Wesley Shaw 128 



Comparison of the European and American Siluric [abstract] ; 



by Amadeus W. Grabau 129 



Evidence as to the mode of formation of coal derived from the 

 deposits of Japan, China, and Manchuria [al)^ tract] ; by E. C. 



Jeffrey and Kono Yasui 130 



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