524 PROCEEDINGS OP THE SAINT LOUIS MEETING 



Pago 



Grande Soufriere of Guadeloupe ; by Edmund Otis Hovey = . 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 G. 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, Montana 



[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 [abstract] ; 



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 the library from June, 1903, to July, 1904; by H. P. Cushing, 



Librarian 587 



Constitution and by-laws ..... 597 



Publication rules 603 



Officers and Fellows of the Geological Society of America 607 



Index to volume 15 619 



Session of Wednesday, December 30 



The Society was called to order by the President, S. F. Emmons, at 

 9.30 o'clock a m, in room 210 of the Central High School, where all the 

 sessions of the meeting were held except the evening session of this day. 



On account of the absence of Professor J. A. Holmes, Chief of the 

 Department of Mines and Metallurgy, Universal Exposition, who was 

 expected to welcome the Society, no addresses were made. 



The report of the Council was called for and was presented by the 

 Secretary, in print, as follows : 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



To the Geological Society of America, 



in Sixteenth Annual Meeting Assembled : 



The stated winter meeting of the Council was held at Washington with 

 the meeting of the Society. In the absence of a summer meeting of the 



