REPORTS OF COMMITTEES 49 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON GEOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE 



No requests for information or for decisions on geologic nomenclature 

 have come direct to the Secretary of the Committee on Geologic Nomen- 

 clature during the past year. No business has been transacted by the 

 committee, therefore, in accordance with its original decision to take up 

 no questions unless action on them was requested by members of the 

 Society. Arthur Keith, 



Secretary. 



The report was accepted and the committee was continued. 



RESOLUTION CONCERNING REPRINTING OF U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 

 BULLETIN ON NAMES OF GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS 



On motion, the Council was requested to communicate to the Director 

 of the United States Geological Survey the feeling of the Society that a 

 new edition of the Survey Bulletin on the names of geologic formations 

 was greatly desired by teachers and other workers in geology. 



COMMITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE OF FAULTS 



The Secretary of the Society stated that the preliminary report of the 

 committee had been distributed in May, 1912, to the fellowship and some 

 other interested geologists, and that Chairman Eeid would be present in 

 the general session to offer the final report. 



The Society then proceeded, at 11 o'clock, to the consideration of sci- 

 entific papers. 



TITLES OF PAPERS PRESENTED IN GENERAL SESSION AND NAMES OF 



DISPUTANTS 



EXPERIMENTAL GEOLOGY, ONE OF THE LARGE SUBDIVISIONS OF GEOLOGY 



BY FBEDEBICK EUGENE WRIGHT 



Read in abstract from manuscript. Discussed by A. W. Grabau, A. L. 

 Day, and J. E. Wolff. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON THE VOMENOLATl RE OF FAVLTB 

 HY IIAKKY FIELDING BLEID, CHAIRMAN 



Presented in abstract from notes. Discussed by A. W. Grabau, W. M". 

 Davis, A. H. Purdue, J. D. [rving, and L. V. Pirsson, with reply by 

 H. F. Reid. On motion, the report was accepted for publication in the 



Bulletin, together with the discussion thereon. 



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