BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 

 Vol. 14, pp. 495-609, PLS. 64-65 MARCH 31, 1904 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING, HELD 

 AT WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 30 AND 31, 1902, AND 

 JANUARY 1 AND 2, 1903, INCLUDING PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

 FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CORDILLERAN SEC- 

 TION, HELD AT SAN FRANCISCO, DECEMBER 80 AND 31, 

 1902 



Herman Le Roy Faikchild, Secretary 

 CONTENTS 



Page 



Session of Tuesday, December 30 496 



Report of the Council 497 



Secretary's report 497 



Treasurer's report 499 



Editor's report 501 



Librarian's report 502 



Election of officers 503 



Election of Fellows 504 



Memoir of Alpheus Hyatt [with bibliography] ; by AV. 0. Crosby 504 



Memoir of James E. Mills [with bibliography] ; by J. C. Branner 512 



Basal conglomerate in Lehigh and Northampton counties, Pennsylvania; 



by Frederick B. Peck 518 



Devonian and Carboniferous rocks of southwestern New York ; by L. C. 



Glenn '. 522 



Age of the Atlantosaurus beds [abstract] ; by Willis T. Lee 531 



Geology of Beacraft mountain, New York [abstract] ; by A. W. Grabau. . 532 

 Cliemical composition of igneous rocks expressed by means of diagrams 



[abstract] ; by J. P. Iddings 533 



Quantitative'distributionof rock magman [abstract] ; by H. S.Washington. 533 

 Nepheline syenite area of San Jose, Tamaulipas, Mexico [abstract] ; by 



G. I. Finlay and J. F. Kemp ... 533 



Session of Tuesday evening, December 30 534 



Session of Wednesday, December 31 534 



Primitive characters of the Triassic ichthyosaurus [abstract] ; by John 



C. Merriam 536 



Paleontological work in New York [abstract] ; by John M. Clarke 536 



Distribution of mastodon remains in New York [abstract] ; by John M. 



Clarke 537 



Permian elements in the Dunkard flora [abstract] ; by David White. . . . 538 

 An important but not well known locality famishing Cretaceous fishes 



[abstract] ; by O. P. Hay 542 



The Blue ridge of North Carolina [abstract] ; by W. ]M. Davis 543 



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