BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 



Vol. 11, pp. 1-14 January 31, 1900 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ELEVENTH SUMMER MEETING, 

 HELD AT COLUMBUS, OHIO, AUGUST 22, 1899 



Herman Le Roy Fairchild, Secretary 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Session of Tuesday, August 10 1 



Election of Fellows 1 



Glacial phenomena of central Ohio [abstract] ; by Frank Leverett 2 



Random, a pre-Cambrian Upper Algonkian terrane ; by C. D. Waleott. . 3 



The section at Schoharie, New York [abstract] ; by John J. Stevenson. . (> 



Geological results of the Indiana Coal Survey; by George H. Ashley. ... 8 



Triassic coal and coke of Sonora, Mexico ; by E. T. Dumble 10 



Register of the Columbus meeting, 1899. 14 



Session of Tuesday, August 10 



The Society was called to order at 10.15 o'clock a m, in the geological 

 lecture-room, Orton Hall, Ohio State University. The President, Pro- 

 fessor Benjamin K. Emerson, occupied the chair throughout the meeting. 

 By mutual understanding between the Societ}^ and the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, the Geological Section (Section E) 

 of the Association had temporarily suspended its sessions and yielded 

 the use of its room and time to this meeting of the Society. 



ELECTION OF FELLOWS 



The Secretary announced that the four candidates for fellowship had 

 received a nearly unanimous vote of the ballots transmitted, and that 

 they were elected, as follows : 



Felloivs Elected 



Cleveland Abbe, Jr., A. B., A. M., Ph. D., Westminster, Maryland. Professor of 



Geology, Western Maryland College. 

 Alfred Hulse Brooks, B. S., Washington, D. C. Assistant Geologist, United 



States Geological Survey. 

 William Libbey, A. M., Sc. D., Princeton, New Jersey. Professor of Physical 



Geography, Princeton University, and Director E. M. Museum of Geology. 

 George Burbank Shattuck, B. S., Ph. D., Baltimore, Marvland. Associate in 



Physiographic Geology, Johns Hopkins University. 



I— Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. 11, 1899 (1) 



