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Ancisnt and modern sharks and the evolution of the class. Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. 



Scl, vol. xlv, p. 126 (title only). 

 Human relics in the drift of Ohio. Am. Geol, vol. xviii, 1896, pp. 302-314. 

 Binichthys prentis- clarki. Am. Geol, vol. xviii, 1896, pp. 199-201, pi. vii. Buchtel 



College notes, No. 13. 

 A new Dinichthys — Binichthys kepleri. Am. Geol, vol. xix, 1897, pp. 322-324, 



pi. xx. *» 



Keview of "Pleistocene features and deposits of the Chicago area," by Frank 



Leverett. Am. Geol., vol. xx, 1897, p. 57. 

 Review of " Geological Survey of Canada, annual report for 1895." Am. Geol, 



vol. xx, 1897, pp. 130-131. 

 Review of " On the southern Devonian formation," by H. S. Williams. Am. Geol., 



vol. xx, 1897, pp. 133-134. 

 Review of " Geological Survey of Mexico, Bulletins 4, 5, 6." Am. Geol., vol. xx, 



1897, pp. 184-186. 

 Paleolith and Neolith. Am. Geol, vol. xxi, 1898, pp. 333-344. 

 Microscopical light in geological darkness. [President's address, Am. Micros. Soc] 



Am. Geol, vol. xxii, 1898, pp. 217-228; Trans. Am. Micros, Soc, 1897, 25 pp., 



figs. 3. 

 Glacial theories, cosmical and terrestrial. Am. Geol, vol. xxii, 1898, pp. 310-315. 



Discusses various hypotheses. 

 The earthquake at San Jacinto/December 25, 1899. Am. Geol, vol. xxv, 1900, pp. 



106-108, 192, pi. iii. 

 A white-hot liquid earth and geological time. Am. Geol, vol. xxv, 1900, pp. 310-31 2. 

 The American Devonian Placaderms. Bull. Geol Soc. Am., vol. xi, 1900, p. 616. 

 Traquair on Silurian Fish. Am. Geol, vol. xxv, 1900, pp. 244-248. 

 Geology of the Sierra Madre in southern California (read before the Cordilleran 



Section). Bull Geol. Soc. Am., vol. xii, 1901, p. 494 ; Jour. Geol, vol. ix, 1901, 



pp. 69-70. 

 Notes on petroleum in California. Am. Geol, vol. xxvii, 1901, pp. 150-159. 



MEMOIR OF GEORGE M. DAWSON 

 BY PRANK D. ADAMS 



It was but two years since— at the Washington meeting — that we de- 

 plored the loss of one of our most distinguished Fellows and a former 

 President of our Society, who had passed away at a ripe old age, Sir 

 William Dawson. Today we have to record the death of his gifted son, 

 also one of our past Presidents, and the latest, who was cut off suddenly 

 in the prime of life and in the midst of what promised to be a long and 

 useful career. 



George Mercer Dawson was the second son of the late Sir William 

 Dawson, and was born at Pictou, Nova Scotia, on August 1, 1849. In 

 1855 his father, who had for some years been acting as Superintendent 

 of Education in Nova Scotia, received the appointment of Principal of 

 McGill University, Montreal, and with his family took up his residence 



