SESSION OF THE CORDILLERAN SECTION 609 



Session of the Cordillkran Section, Friday, December 29 



The announcement of the meeting, preceding the preliminary list of 

 papers, was as follows : 



A year ago about a dozen west coast geologists met at Berkeley and organized 

 the Cordilleran Geological Club. The organization was at once recognized as tem- 

 porary, and the project of organizing permanently as a section of the Geological 

 Society of America formed a leading topic of discussion at the meeting. The fol- 

 io wing spring a number of Fellows of the Society resident in California memorialized 

 the Council of the Society,* setting forth their inability to be present at the meet- 

 ings of the Society owing to the great distance at which they reside from the usual 

 places of meeting, and praying for legislation on the part of the Society which 

 would enable them to meet as a geographically distinct section of the Society. 

 Since the memorial was forwarded to the Secretary there has been no meeting of 

 the Council, but the Secretary states that such an organization would be within 

 the constitution, and advises that the organization be proceeded with. Prominent 

 Fellows of the Society in the East have been consulted, and have also cordially 

 commended the project as consistent with and serving the main purposes of the 

 Society. 



Under these circumstances, the undersigned, with the approval of several Fellows 

 of the Society with whom he has consulted, has ventured to call a meeting of 

 Fellows resident in the Cordilleran portion of the country, to be held on December 

 29 and 30, 1899, in the rooms of the Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California. 



The purpose of the meeting will be to effect such organization, under the con- 

 stitution of the Society, as the circumstance of separate meetings may seem to 

 demand, and to participate in the discussion of geological questions. 



Andrew C. Lawson. 

 Berkeley, California, December 3, 1899. 



The meeting was called to order at 11 o'clock a m,in the council-room 

 of the Academy of Sciences. 



The Section was organized by electing Joseph Le Conte chairman and 

 Andrew C. Lawson secretary. 



An executive committee, consisting of the Chairman and Secretary 

 and J. E. Talmage, to attend to the affairs of the Section, was ap- 

 pointed. 



The Executive Committee was authorized to pass upon accounts of 

 expenditures and to arrange the time and place of the next meeting. 



*See page 587 of this volume. 



