BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 



VOL. 16, PP. 531-636, PLS. 90-94 FEBRUARY 10, 1906 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING, 

 HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, DECEMBER 29, 

 30, AND 31, 1994, INCLUDING PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH 

 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CORDILLERAN SECTION, HELD 

 AT BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, DECEMBER 30 AND 31, 1904 



Herman Le Roy Fairchild, Secretary 



CONTENTS 



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Session of Thursday, December 29 532 



Report of the Council 532 



Secretary's report 533 



Treasurer's report 535 



Editor's report 538 



Librarian's report 539 



Election of officers , 540 



Election of Fellows 540 



Memoir of Charles Emerson Beecher [with bibliography] ; by Charles 



Schuchert 541 



Memoir of John B. Hatcher [with bibliography] ; by W. B. Scott 548 



Memoir of Henry McCalley [with bibliography] ; by Eugene A. Smith. . 555 



Memoir of William Henry Pettee ; by Israel C. Russell 558 



Memoir of Charles Schaeffer ; by Angelo Heilprin 561 



Development and morphology of Fenestella [abstract] ; by Edgar R. 



Cumings 562 



Origin of the caves of Put-in-bay, lake Erie [abstract] ; by E. H. Kraus. 563 



Zuni salt lake [abstract] ; by N. H. Darton 564 



Experimental investigation of the compressibility and plastic deformation 



of certain rocks [abstract] ; by Frank D. Adams and E. G. Coker 564 



Session of Thursday evening, December 29 565 



Session of Friday, December 30 566 



Auditing committee's report 566 



Present condition of Mont Pele [abstract] ; by Edmund Otis Hovey 566 



Soufriere of Saint Lucia [abstract] ; by Edmund Otis Hovey 569 



Boiling lake of Dominica [abstract] ; by Edmund Otis Hovey 570 



Nitrogen gas well at Dexter, Kansas [abstract! ; by Erasmus Haworth. . . 572 



Section of Petrography. . 573 



Occurrence and distribution of celestite-bearing rocks [abstract] ; by 



Edward H. Kraus 574 



Suggestion as to origin of riebeckite rocks; by G. M. Murgoci 575 



Session of Saturday, December 31 576 



New York drumlins [abstract] ; by H. L. Fairchild 576 



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