BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 



Vol. 18, pp. 557-717, PLS. 61-74 MARCH 25, 1908 



PEOCEEDINGS OF THE NINETEENTH ANNUAL MEETING, 

 HELD AT NEW YOEK, N. Y., DECEMBER 27, 28, AND 29, 

 INCLUDING PROCEEDINGS OF THE EIGHTEENTH AN^ 

 NUAL MEETING OF THE CORDILLEEAN SECTION, HELD 

 AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA, DECEMBER 

 28 AND 29, 1906 



Edmund Otis Hovey, Secretary 



CONTENTS 



Page. 



Session of Thursday, December 27 559 



Report of the Council 559 



Secretary's report 559 



Treasurer's report 564 



Editor's report 568 



Librarian's report 568 



Election of officers 569 



Election of Fellows 570 



Memoir of William Buck Dwight ; by F. J. H. Merrill 571 



Memoir of Samuel Lewis Penfleld (with bibliography) ; by Joseph P. 



Iddings 572 



Memoir of Israel C. Russell (with bibliography) ; by Bailey Willis... 582 

 Memoir of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (with bibliography) ; by John 



E. Wolff 592 



Graded surfaces [abstract] ; by F. P. Gulliver 609 



Session of Friday, December 28 611 



Seventeenth annual report of the Committee on Photographs 611 



Resolutions concerning retiring Secretary and Treasurer 611 



Resolution concerning investigation of volcanoes 613 



Memorial of A. R. C. Selwyn [abstract] ; by PI. M. Ami 614 



Dome structure in conglomerate [abstract] ; by Ralph Arnold 615 



Relations between climate and terrestrial deposits [abstract] ; by 



Joseph Barren 616 



Personal reminiscences of Sir William E. Logan [abstract] ; by Robert 



Bell 622 



Session of Saturday, December 29 623 



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