672 PKOCEEDINGS OF THE OTTAWA MEETING 



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Session of Friday, December 29 709 



Auditing committee's report 709 



Geology of Ottawa and its environs [abstract] ; by H. M. Ami 710 



Glacial history of Nantucket and cape Cod [abstract] ; by J. H. Wilson. 710 

 Geology and paleontology of northern Canada [abstract] ; by H. M. 



Ami 711 



Gilbert gulf (marine waters in Ontario basin) ; by H. L. Fairchild. .. 712 

 Discovery of the Schoharie fauna in Michigan [abstract] ; by A. W. 



Grabau 7i8 



Calabrian earthquake of September 8, 1905 [abstract] ; by William H. 



Hobbs 720 



Volcanic craters in the southwest ; by Charles R. Keyes 721 



Red beds in the Laramie Mountain region [abstract ;] by N. H. Darton. 724 



Tertiary terranes in New Mexico [abstract] ; by C. R. Keyes 725 



Quaternary history of the upper Mississippi valley [abstract] ; by 



Warren Upham 725 



Distribution of drumlins and its bearing on their origin [abstract] ; by 



Frank B. Taylor 726 



Geological map of Connecticut, 1905 [abstract] ; by H. E. Gregory 727 



Resolution of thanks 727 



Register of the Ottawa meeting, 1905 728 



Session of the Cordilleran Section, Friday, December 29, 1905 728 



Tehachapi valley [abstract] ; by Andrew C. Lawson 729 



Igneous rocks of the northwestern Black hills [abstract] ; by W. S. 



Tangier Smith 729 



Pleistocene phenomena in the Mississippi basin ; a working hypothesis 



[abstract] ; by W. G. Tight 730 



Session of the Cordilleran Section, Saturday, December 30 730 



Exceptional nature and genesis of the Mississippi delta [abstract] ; by 



E. W. Hilgard 731 



Register of the meeting of the Cordilleran Section 732 



Accessions to the Library from July, 1905, to October, 1906; by H. P. 



Cushing 733 



Officers and Fellows of the Geological Society of America 743 



Index to volume 17 755 



Session of Wednesday, December 27 



The Society was called to order by the President, Raphael Pumpelly, 

 at 10.10 o'cock a m, at the Normal School, where all the sessions were 

 held during the meeting except the evening session of this day. 



By vote of the Society the address of welcome and response were post- 

 poned to the afternoon. 



