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 Fort Cassin beds in the Calciferous limestone of Dutchess county, New 



York [abstract] ; by W. B. Dwight 490 



Register of the Albany meeting, 1900 492 



Session of the Cordilleran Section, Friday, December 28 498 



Evidences of shallow seas in Paleozoic time in southern Arizona [abstract] ; 



by W. P. Blake 493 



Sierra Madre near Pasadena [abstract] ; by E. W. Claypole 494 



Drainage features of California [abstract] ; by A. C. Lawson 495 



Description of Bates hole, Wyoming [abstract] ; by W. C Knight 495 



Geological section through John Day basin [abstract] ; by J. C. Merriam. 496 



Session of the Cordilleran Section, Saturday, December 29 497 



Geology of the Great basin in California and Nevada [abstract] ; by H. W. 



Turner 498 



Geology of the Three Sisters, Oregon [abstract] ; by H. W. Fairbanks. . 498 



Sketch of the pedological geology of California [abstract]; by E. W. Hilgard. 499 



Neocene basins of the Klamath mountains [abstract] ; by F. W. Anderson. 500 

 Age of certain granites in the Klamath mountains [abstract] ; by O. H. 



Hershey 501 



Feldspar-corundum rock from Plumas county, California [abstract] ; by 



A. C. Lawson 501 



Register of San Francisco meeting of the Cordilleran Section, 1900 502 



Accessions to Library from June, 1900, to June, 1901 503 



Officers and Fellows of the Geological Society of America 513 



Index to volume 12 523 



Session of Thursday, December 27' 



The Societ}' was called to order l)y the President, Dr George M. Daw- 

 son, in the chapel of the Albany (Bo3's) Acadeni}'. All the sessions 

 of the meeting were held in this place and the President presided at all 

 the sessions except one. 



Dr F. J. H. Merrill, State Geologist, spoke a few words of welcome 

 to the Society, and announced that the formal address of welcome, ex- 

 pected at this time, by the Honorable T. Guilford Smith', Chairman of 

 the State Museum Committee, would be given at the dinner in the even- 

 ing. Dr John M. Clarke, State Paleontologist, also welcomed the So- 

 ciety in a brief address. 



Doctor Clarke read the following invitation from the Director of the 

 State Library : 



State Library, Albany, New York, December 27, 1900. 

 John M. Clarke, Ph. D., Albany, Neiu York. 



Dear Doctor Clarke: Will you kindly extend to the visiting geologists a most 

 cordial invitation to visit the State Library and Home Education departments, 

 where we should be more than delighted to show them anything of our peculiar 

 work in which they are interested? We appreciate the honor done to our old city 



