794 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CORDILLERAN SECTION 



CONDITIONS OF FOSSILIZATION 



OEOLOQT OF THE 8ANTA LUCIA RANGE, IN TEE BIQ 8UR REGION 



BY J. CULVEB HAETZELL 



The Secretary called attention to the fact that Mr. G. K. Gilbert, who 

 had been elected a member of the section's Executive Committee, had 

 changed his residence from the Cordilleran region and was therefore not 

 eligible to a section office. The section then elected H. Foster Bain as 

 Councilor. 



REPRESENTATION ON THE COUNCIL 



Professor Eakle brought up the matter of representation of the Cor- 

 dilleran Section in the Council of the general Society. It was pointed 

 out that the Cordilleran Section had had a successful existence for ten 

 years, and that on account of the distance of its members from the places 

 of meeting of the general Society and its consequent isolation, it had had 

 very little opportunity for taking any direct part in the councils of the 

 general Society. It was voted unanimously that the section petition the 

 Society that it be given a representative on the Council. 



RESOLUTION CONCERNING SEISMOLOGY 



Professor Lawson brought up the matter of the present condition of 

 seismology in America and the proposed establishment by Congress of a 

 National Bureau of Seismology. After a general discussion, it was voted 

 that the Secretary be instructed to prepare and forward to the President 

 and officers of Congress and the congressional committees now consider- 

 ing the matter a set of resolutions embodying the unanimous opinion of 

 the section favoring the establishment of such a bureau. The resolutions 

 follow. 



Resolved, That the Cordilleran Section of the Geological Society of America 

 favors strongly the establishment of a National Bureau of Seismology organ- 

 ized under the Smithsonian Institution, with power 



(a) To collect seismological data. 



(6) To establish observing stations. 



(c) To study and investigate special earthquake regions within the national 

 domain. 



(d) To cooperate with other scientific bodies and organizations and indi- 

 vidual scientists in forwarding the development and dissemination of seismo- 

 logical knowledge. 



It regards it of great importance that other scientific bureaus of the National 

 Government, in particular the United States Weather Bureau and the United 



