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Proceedings of the Twenty-second Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of. 

 America, held at Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 28, 29, 



30, and 31, 1909 ; Edmund Otis Hovey, Secretartj 1 



Session of Tuesday, December 28 2 



Election of Auditing Committee 2 



Election of Officers, Fellows, and Correspondents 2 



Memoir of Persifor Frazer (with bibliography); by E. A. F. Pen- 

 rose, Jr 5 



Memoir of Daniel W. Langton, Jr. ( with bibliography); by E. A. Smith. 12 

 Report of the Committee on the Formation of the Paleontological So- 

 ciety 16 



Report of the Publication Committee 17 



Amendments to the Constitution and By-Laws 19 



Report of the Photograph Committee 19 



Titles of papers and names of disputants , 20 



Session of Wednesday, December 29 23 



Report of the Auditing Committee 23 



Titles of papers and names of disputants 23 



Session of Thursday, December 30 28 



Resolution concerning Antarctic research , 28 



Report of the Committee on Geologic Nomenclature 29 



Report of the Committee on the Nomenclature of Faults 29 



Titles of papers and names of disputants 29 



Sessions of the Paleontological Section, December 29, 30, and 31 34 



Cordilleran Section 34 



Report of the Council 35 



Secretary's report 35 



Treasurer's report 37 



Editor's report 39 



Register of the Boston-Cambridge Meeting, 1909 40 



Constitution and By-Laws 42 



Publication rules of the Geological Society of America 49 



Officers, Correspondents, and Fellows of the Geological Society of America. 53 

 Proceedings of the Preliminary Meeting of the Paleontological Society, held at 

 Baltimore, Maryland, December 30, 1908, and also Proceedings of the First 

 Annual Meeting, held at Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 29, 1909; 



Herdman F. Cleland, Secretary 69 



Preliminary meeting for the organization of a Paleontological Society 69 



Report of the Organization Committee of the Paleontological Society. .... 71 



First Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society 72 



Report of the Secretary 72 



Election of officers 72 



Election of members 73 



Program 73 



Constitution and By-Laws of the Paleontological Society 77 



Officers and members of the Paleontological Society 83 



Origin of the Alkaline rocks ; by Reginald A. Daly 87 



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