BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 

 VOL. 15, PP. 523-636, PLS. 52-59 DECEMBER 10, 1904 



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 



CONTENTS 



Page 



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. dishing 541 



Memoir of Wilbur Clinton Knight [with bibliography] ; by E. H. Barbour. 544 

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



rington . 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 Wisconsin 



[abstract] ; by Samuel Weidman 551 



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



Grant 552 



Physiography and glaciation of the western Tian Shan mountains, Turk- 

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



Tectonic geography of southwestern New England]and southeastern New- 

 York [abstract] ; by William H. Hobbs 554 



Session of Wednesdaj' 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 Pele ; 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 



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