512 PROCEEDINGS OF THE WASHINGTON MEETING 



Session of Saturday, December 30 596 



Continental deposits of the Rocky Mountain region [with discussion] ; by 



William M. Davis 596 



Further studies on the history of the Cincinnati anticline [discussion] ; 



by A. F. Foerste 004 



Register of the Washington meeting, 1899 007 



Session of the Oordiileran Section, Friday, December 29 009 



Session of the Cordilleran Section, Saturday, December 30 610 



Goat-antelope from the cave fauna of Pikes Peak region ; by F. W. Cragin . 610 



Ground sloths in the California Quaternary ; by John C. Merriam 612 



Register of San Francisco meeting of Cordilleran Section, 1899 616 



Accessions to Library from March, 1899, to June, 1900 617 



Officers and Fellows of the Geological Society of America 029 



Index to volume 11 039 



Session of Wednesday, December 27 



The twelfth winter meeting of the Society was called to order at 10 

 o'clock in the Lecture hall of Columbian University, where all the ses- 

 sions were held. The President, Professor Benjamin K. Emerson, occu- 

 pied the chair throughout the meeting. 



Mr G. K. Gilbert, in behalf of the Fellows resident in Washington and 

 the scientific societies of the city, made a brief address of welcome, to 

 which the President responded. 



The first item of administrative business was the report of the Council, 

 including the annual reports of the officers, which the Secretary sub- 

 mitted in print, without reading, as follows: 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



lo the Geological Society of America, 



in Twelfth Annual Meeting Assembled : 

 During the past year the Council has held its stated meetings in con- 

 nection with Societ}' - meetings, the attendance at Columbus being one 

 Jess than a quorum. The affairs of the Society are in good condition, 

 and the Council has no special business or recommendations to present. 

 The details of the past year's administration will be found in the fol- 

 lowing reports of the officers : 



S EC R ETA RY'S RbPO RT 



To the Council of the Geological Society of America : 



Meetings. — The records of the Eleventh Annual Meeting, held at New 

 York, December, 1898, and the Eleventh Summer Meeting, held at Co- 

 lumbus, Ohio, in August of this year, are not yet printed, but will doubt- 



