BULLETIN OF ThE GEOLOGICAL SOCIEtV OF AMERICA 

 Vol. 23, pp. 77-92. March h, 1912 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIKD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 

 PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY, HELD AT WASHINGTON, 

 D. C, DECEMBER 28, 29, AND 30, 1911 



R. S. Bassler, Secretary 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Session of Thursday, December 28 T7 



Report of the Council 77 



Secretary's report » • . • 78 



Treasurer's reix)rt 8<) 



Appointment of Auditing Committee 81 



Election of officers and members 81 



Titles of papers on general paleontology and stratigraphy 82 



Memorial address 82 



Titles of papers and names of disputants 83 



Session of Friday, December 29 84 



Titles of papers on invertebrate paleontology 84 



Symposium on ten years' progress in vertebrate paleontology 85 



Session of Saturday, December 30 , . . . 87 



Titles of papers and names of disputants ^ . . . 87 



Titles of papers on paleobotany 88 



Register of the Washington meeting, 1911 88 



Officers, correspondents, and members of the Paleontological Society 89 



Session of Thursday, December 28, 1911 



The opening session of the Society was called to order at 10 o'clock, 

 Thursday morning, December 28, 1911, by Vice-President Arthur Hol- 

 lick, in the new National Museum. Dr. Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, welcomed the Society to Washington and 

 made an informal address on the beginnings and progress of Paleontology 

 in America. 



The report of the Council, the first matter of business, was then pre- 

 sented. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



To the Paleontological Society in Third Annual Meeting assembled: 



The regular annual meeting of the Council was held at Pittsburgh on 

 the adjournment of the Society December 29, 1910. Since this meeting 

 all business of the Society has been arranged by correspondence. The 

 details of administration for the third year of the Society's existence are 

 given in the following reports of officers : 



(77) 



