BULLETIN OF^ THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 

 Vol. 21, pp. 1-68, PL. 1 March 31, i9io 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEET- 

 ING OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, HELD 

 AT BOSTON AND CiVMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, DECEM- 

 BER 28, 29, 30, AND 31, 1909^ 



Edmund Otis Hovey. Secretary 



CONTENTS 



raj?e 



Session of Tuesda3% December 28 2 



Election of Auditing Committee 2 



Election of Officers, Fellows, and Correspondents 2 



Memoir of Persifor Frazer (with bil)lio;i;rapby) ; by R. A. F. Pen- 

 rose, Jr 5 



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

 Report of the Committee on the Formation of the Paleontological 



Society 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 87 



Editor's report 39 



1 The business sessions of the twenty-second annual meeting of the Societj' were held 

 in the rooms of the departments of Geology, Mineralogy, and Botany of the University 

 Museum, Harvard University. The meetings in general were presided over by First 

 Vice-President F. D. Adams in the absence of President G. K. Gilbert, who was detained 

 by ill healin in Washington, D. C. 



I— Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. 21, 1909 (1) 



