IV BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 



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Tectonic geography of southwestern New England and southeastern 



New York [abstract] ; by William H. Hobbs 554 



Session of Wednesday evening, December 30 557 



Session of Thursday, December 31 , 557 



Auditing Committee's report 557 



Fourteenth annual report of the Committee on Photographs 557 



New cone and obelisk of mont Pelee ; by Edmund Otis Hovey 558 



Some erosion phenomena observed on the islands of Saint Vincent 



and Martinique in 1902 and 1903 ; by Edmund Otis Hovey 560 



Grande soufriere of Guadeloupe ; by Edmund Otis Hovei t 561 



Bibliography of literature of the West Indian eruptions published in 



the United States ; by Edmund Otis Hovey 562 



Session of Friday January 1 566 



Basin of the Po river [abstract] ; by George L. Collie 566 



Benton formation in eastern South Dakota ; by J. E. Todd 569 



Evidence of the agency of water in the distribution of the loess in the 



Missouri valley [abstract] ; by Frederick Wright 575 



Fresh water shells in the loess [abstract] ; by B. Shimek 576 



Notes on the geology of the Hellgate and Big Blackfoot valleys, Mon- 

 tana [abstract] ; by N. H. Winchell 576 



Register of the Saint Louis meeting, 1903-1904 580 



Session of the Cordilleran Section, Friday January 1, 1904 581 



Stratigraphy of the southern Coast ranges of California [abstract] ; by 



F. M. Anderson 581 



Fault-planes in the Dakota fire-clay beds at Golden, Colorado [ab- 

 stract] ; by Horace B. Patton 583 



Session of the Cordilleran Section, Saturday, January 2 584 



Glaciation on the high plateau of Bolivia, South America [abstract] ; 



by W. G. Tight 584 



Register of the Berkeley meeting of the Cordilleran Section, January 



1 and 2, 1904 586 



Accessions to Library from June, 1903, to July, 1904 ; by H. P. Gushing, 



Librarian 587 



Constitution and by-laws 597 



Publication rules 603 



Officers and members of the Geological Society of America 607 



Index to volume 15 . 619 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Plates 



Plate 1 — Gilbert : Fairview dome ■ 34 



" 2 " Dome structure in the Yosemite region 35 



" 3 " Dome structure near Emerick lake 36 



4 Joint structure and fire spalling. 36 



5 — Wilson : Geology and drainage features of the country north and 



east of lake Ontario. . . . : 215 



6 " Young gorge at Fenelon falls, Trent river, Ontario 226 



