BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 

 Vol. 7, pp. 453-558, PLS. 22-24 APRIL 21, 1896 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING, HELD 

 AT PHILADELPHIA, DECEMBER 26, 27 AND 28, 1895 



Herman LeRoy Fairchild, Secretary 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Session of Thursday, December 26 453 



Report of the Council 454 



Secretary's report 454 



Treasurer's report 456 



Editor' s report 458 



Election of officers - 460 



Election of Fellows 460 



Memoir of James D. Dana [with bibliography] ; by Joseph Le Conte 461 



Memoir of Henry B. Nason ; by T. C. Chamberlin. 479 



Memoir of Albert E, Foote [with bibliography] ; by George F. Kunz .... 481 

 Memoir of Antonio del Castillo [with bibliography] ; by Ezequiel Ordonez. 486 

 Illustrations of the dynamic metamorphism of anorthosites and related 



rocks in the Adirondacks [abstract] ; by J. F. Kemp 488 



The share of volcanic dust and pumice in marine deposits [abstract J ; by 



N. S. Shaler 490 



A needed term in petrography [abstract] ; by L. V. Pirsson 492 



Session of Friday, December 27 • 493 



Sixth annual report of committee on photographs 494 



Examples of stream-robbing in the Catskill mountains [abstract] ; by 



N. H. Darton 505 



Notes on glaciers [abstract] ; by H. F. Reid 508 



Session of Saturday, December 28 509 



Paleozoic terranes in the Connecticut valley [abstract] ; by C. H. Hitchcock. 510 

 Notes on relations of lower members of the Coastal Plain series in South 



Carolina ; by N. H. Darton 512 



Some stages of Appalachian erosion ; by Arthur Keith 519 



The Cerrillos coal field of New Mexico [abstract] ; by J. J. Stevenson. . . 525 



Register of the Philadelphia meeting 528 



Officers and Fellows of the Geological Society of America 529 



Accessions to the library, from January, 1895, to March, 1896 539 



Index to volume 7 549 



Session of Thursday, December 26 



The Society was called to order at 2 o'clock p m, in room 104, Depart- 

 ment of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, President N. S. Shaler in the 



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