BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 

 VOL. 8, PP- 359-446, PL. 51 APRIL 30, 1897 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NINTH ANNUAL MEETING, HELD 

 AT WASHINGTON, DECEMBER 29, 30, AND 31, 1896 



Herman Le Roy Fairchild, Secretary 

 CONTENTS 



Page 



Session of Tuesday, December 29 359 



Report of the Council 360 



Secretary's report 360 



Treasurer's report 365 



Editor's report 367 



Election of officers 369 



Election of Fellows 369 



Memoir of Robert Hay [with bibliography] ; by Robert T. Hill 370 



Memoir of Charles Wachsmuth [with bibliography] ; by Samuel Calvin. . 374 



Memoir of N. J. Giroux ; by R. W. Ells 377 



Session of Tuesday evening, December 29 379 



Session of Wednesday, December 30 380 



Seventh annual report of the committee on photographs 380 



Note on the stratigraphy of certain horn >geneous rocks [abstract] ; by 



C. H. Hitchcock . 389 



Session of Thursday, December 31 393 



Proceedings of the Petrographic Section 393 



Aporhyolite of South mountain, Pennsylvania ; by Florence Bascom 393 



Age of the white limestone of Sussex county, New Jersey [abstract] ; by 



J. E. Wolff and Alfred H. Brooks .".397 



Origin and relations of the Grenville- Hastings series of the Canadian 



Laurentian [abstract] ; by Frank D. Adams and Alfred E. Barlow 398 



Note on " Origin and relations of the Grenville-Hastings series of the 



Canadian Laurentian " ; by R. W. Ells 401 



Grain of rocks [abstract] ; by Alfred C. Lane 403 



Physiography of the eastern Adirondacks in the Cambrian and Ordovician 



periods ; by J. F. Kemp ,...., 408 



Letter of Lieutenant R. E. Peary, and resolutions relating thereto 413 



Register of the Washington meeting, 1896 417 



Officers and Fellows of the Geological Society of America 419 



Accessions to the library from March, 1896, to March, 1897 429 



Index to volume 8 439 



Session of Tuesday, December 29 



The Society was called to order at 10 o'clock a m, in the lecture hall 

 of the United States National Museum, where all the daily sessions were 



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