BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OP AMERICA 

 Vol. 28, pp. 189-234 March 31, 1917 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



PEOCEEDINGS OF THE EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 

 PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY, HELD AT ALBANY, NEW 

 YORK, DECEMBER 27, 28, AND 29, 1916. 



R. S. Bassler, SecrGtarij 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



Session of Wednesday, December 27 192 



Report of the Council 192 



Secretary's report 193 



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. Mat- 

 thew 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 [abstract 



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 Cyathophyllidae [abstract] ; 



by Amadeus W. "Grabau 199 



Reef coral fauna of Carrizo Creek, Imperial County, California, 



and its significance [abstract]; by T. Waj^land Yaughan 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 for- 

 mations [abstract] ; by Charles Schuchert 20.3 



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 



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