CONTENTS 



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 Theories of ore deposition historically considered. Annual address by the 



President, S. F. Emmons 1 



Domes and dome structure of the high Sierra ; by G. K. Gilbert.. 29 



Carboniferous of the Appalachian basin ; by John J. Stevenson 37 



Trent River system and Saint Lawrence outlet ; by A. W. G. Wilson 211 



Geology under the planetesimal hypothesis of earth-origin; by H. L. Fair- 

 child 243 



Deposition of the Appalachian Pottsville ; by David White 267 



Molybdenite at Crown Point, Washington ; by A. R. Crook 283 



Basin range structure of the Humboldt region ; by G. D. Louderback. ....... 289 



Iroquois beach in Ontario ; by A. P. Coleman 347 



Post glacial change of altitude in the Italian and Swiss lakes ; by F. B. Taylor. 369 

 Comparison of the stratigraphy of the Black hills, Bighorn mountains, and 



Rocky Mountain front range ; by N. H. Darton 379 



Finger Lake region of western New York ; by C. R. Dryer 449 



New studies in the Ammonoosuc district of New Hampshire; by C. H. Hitch- 

 cock , 461 



Lineaments of the Atlantic Border region ; by W. H. Hobbs 483 



Nantucket shorelines, II ; by F. P. Gulliver. 507 



Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting, held at Saint Louis, Missouri, 

 December 30 and 31, 1903, and January 1, 1904, including Proceedings of 

 the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Cordilleran Section, held at San Francisco, 



January 1 and 2, 1904 ; Herman Le Roy Fairchild, Secretary 523 



Session of Wednesday, December 30 524 



Report of the Council 524 



Secretary's report 525 



Treasurer's report ..... 527 



Editor's report 529 



Librarian's report 530 



Election of officers 531 



Election of Fellows 532 



Memoir of J. Peter Lesley [with bibliography] ; by J. J. Stevenson. 532 



Memoir of Peter Neff; by H. P. Cushing -. 541 



Memoir of Wilbur Clinton Knight [with bibliography] ; by E. H. 



Barbour 544 



Geography and geology of western Mexico [abstract] ; by Oliver C. 



Farrington 549 



Fossil water fungus in petrified wood from Egypt [abstract] ; by 



Alexis A. Julien 550 



Sudbury nickel-bearing eruptive [abstract] ; by A. P. Coleman 551 



Widespread occurrence of fayalite in certain igneous rocks of Wiscon- 

 sin [abstract] ; by Samuel Weidm a n 551 



Field work in the Wisconsin lead and zinc district [abstract] ; by 



TJ. S. Grant 552 



Physiography and glaciatiori of the western Tian Shan mountains, 



Turkestan [abstract] ; by W. M. Davis and E. Huntington 554 



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