576 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ALBUQUERQUE MEETING 



OCCORRENCE OF PETROLEUM IN THE COAf^T COUNTIES OF CALIFORNIA 



BY EALPH ARNOLD 



CONGLOMERATE FORMED BT A mXERALLADEN STREAM ly CALIFORNIA 



BY B. ARNOLD AND R. ANDERSON 



This paper has been published as pages 147-154 of this volume. 



DISTRIBUTION OF GOLD IN THE SADDLE AND LEG REGION OF THE MEGUMA 



SERIES OF N'OVA SCOTIA 



BY J. EDMUND WOODMAN 



PROBABLE AGE OF THE MEGUMA (GOLD-BEARING) SERIES OF NOVA SCOTIA 



J. EDMUND WOODMAN 



This paper was printed as pages 99-112 of this volume. 



GIANT SPRINGS AT GREAT FALLS, MONTANA 

 BY C. A. FISHER* 



This paper was printed as pages 339-346 of this volume. 



After the end of the reading of formal papers, C. W. Hayes informally 

 exhibited a set of photographs of the fossil woods of Arizona, together 

 with notes on them by David White, paleobotanist to the United States 

 Geological Survey. Tlien W. G. Tight exhibited and described a series 

 of stereopticon slides illustrating glacial and other phenomena among the 

 high Andes of Bolivia, and the scientific program was declared finished. 



COMMITTEE ON GEOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE 



The question of forming a General Committee on Geological Nomen- 

 clature was thoroughly discussed by C. K. Van Hise, A. C. Lane, A. C. 

 Lawson, A. P. Coleman, G. K. Gilbert, H. E. Gregory, E. D. George, 

 C. W. Hayes, and W. G. Tight, and the following action was taken unan- 

 imously : 



The Geological Society of America recommends to the various organi- 

 zations concerned : 



1. That a general Committee on Geological Nomenclature be formed; 

 one-fifth of its members to be from the United States Geological Survey, 

 one-fifth from the Canadian Geological Survey organizations, one-fifth 



1 Introduced by C. W. Hayes, 



