Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society, Held at Am Herst, Massachusetts, December 28-30, 1921.1
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BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA V o l . 3 3 , p p . 191-222 M a r c h 31, 1922 PROCEEDINGS OF THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY, HELD AT AM HERST, MASSACHUSETTS, DECEMBER 28-30, 1921.1 R. S. Bassler, Secretary CONTENTS Page Session of Wednesday, December 28.................................................................... 193 Session of Thursday, December 29....................................................................... 193 Report of the Council....................................................................................... 198 Secretary’s report....................................................................................... 193 Treasurer’s report...................................................................................... 194 Appointment of Auditing Committee.........................................................195 Election of officers and members................................................................... 195 New nominations and election to membership........................................... 196 Presentation of papers...................................................................................... 196 Nature of Haltcrella [abstract] ; by Thomas H. Clark.......... ..... 196 Possible habits of cephalopods and trilobites [abstract] ; by Percy E. Raymond............................................................................................. 197 Historical sketch of paleopathology [abstract] ; by Roy L.Moodie 197 Oldhamia in the Lower Cambrian of Massachusetts [abstract] ; by B. F. Howell.................................................................................... 198 Nature of Taonurus and its use in estimating geologic time [abstract] ; by J. J. Galloway.......................................................... 199 Pennsylvanian faunas of north Texas and their correlation [ab stract] ; by Raymond C. Moore.......................................................... 199 Unattached simple Paleozoic corals [abstract] ; by August F. Foerste....................................................................................................... 201 Devonian limestone at Saint George, Quebec [abstract]; by Thomas H. C lark.................................................................................... 201 Age of the coal beds of the Kaiping coal basin, in northeastern China [abstract] ; by A. W. Grabau................................................. 201 Ordovicic formations of north China [abstract] ; by A. W. Grabau 202 Presidential address....................................................................................... 203 Some problems connected with the Dakota sandstone: Presi dential address by T. W. Stanton...................................................... 203 Supplement to the bibliography and catalogue of the fossil verte brates of North America; by O. I’. Hay ....................................... 203 Flora of the Payette formation [abstract] ; by Ralph W. Chaney. 203 1 Manuscript received by the Secretary of the Society February 7, 1922. (191) Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-pdf/33/1/191/3414292/BUL33-0191.pdf by guest on 29 September 2021 192 PROCEEDINGS OF THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY Page Flora of tlie Ranclio La Brea [abstract] ; by Ralph W. Chaney... 204 Pines of the Mesozoic and their relationship to older and more modern types [abstract] ; by Edward C. Jeffrey........................... 204 Ordovician “Hypoparian” genera of trilobites [abstract] ; by E. O. U lrich.......................................................................................................... 205 Limits of variations in foraminifera; by J. A. Cushman................ 206 Recent geological work in Gulf Coast oil fields; by E. T. Dumble. 207 Mohawkian and Cincinnatian rocks of central Tennessee [ab stract] ; by R. S. B asslei......................................................................207 Session of Friday, December 30............................................................................. 207 Report of the Auditing Committee................................................................ 207 Presentation of papers...................................................................................... 207 Few more facts bearing on the correlation of the Chester forma tions ; by E. O. Ulrich.......................................................................... 208 Occurrence of the Parichnos of Bertrand in certain gymnosperms [abstract] ; by E. C. Jeffrey............................................................... 208 Age and development of red beds and the terrestrial vertebrates in the Appalachian and the Kansas-Texas region [abstract]; by J. W. Beede....................................................................................... 208 Methods of studying Ammonites; by Marjorie O’Connell............... 209 Lunar petrefactions; by F. W. Sardeson............................................209 Section of Vertebrate Paleontology....................................................................... 209 Presentation of papers..................................................................................... 209 Fossils of the Connecticut Valley [abstract] ; by E. L. Troxell___209 Hyracodons from the Big Badlands of South Dakota; by W. J. Sinclair....................................................................................................... 209 Relationship of the Great Basin and Great Plains fauna [ab stract] ; by E. L. Troxell...................................................................... 210 Restoration of Blastomeryac; by R. S. L ull........................................ 211 Supposed Labyrinthodont footprints from the Maryland Carbon iferous [ab stract]; by R. S. L ull........................................................ 211 Upper Pawnee Creek beds [abstract] ; by F. M. Loomis................ 211 Lower Miocene at Van Tassel, Wyoming; by F. B. Loomis............ 211 Huge amphibian from the Upper Coal Measures of Kansas [abstract]; by H. T. Martin............................................................... 212 Primitive and carnivore-like characters of the Merycoidodontidse [abstract] ; by M. R. Thorpe............................................................. 212 Restoration of Eporeodon socialis, Marsh [abstract]; by M. R. Thorpe........................................................................................................ 213 New light on the phylogeny of the Canid®; by W. D. Matthew... 214 Tooth of almost human type from the Lower Pliocene Snake Creek beds of Western Nebraska; by Harold J. Cook................ 214 Armocyon, a probable Old World migrant [abstract] ; by M. R. Thorpe.............................................................. ......................................... 214 Snake Creek fauna; by W. D. M atthew.............................................. 215 Phylogeny and nomenclature of the Proboscidea; by H. F. Osborn 215 Register of the Amherst meeting, 1921................................................................ 216 Officers, Correspondents, and Members of the Paleontological Society........ 217 Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-pdf/33/1/191/3414292/BUL33-0191.pdf by guest on 29 September 2021 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 193 S e s s i o n o f W e d n e s d a y , D e c e m b e r 28 » The general session of the Society, for the presentation of annual re ports and other business, scheduled for 2 p. m., Wednesday, December 28, was postponed until Thursday, at 9.30 a. m., in order that the members could attend the section of the Geological Society of America where the stratigraphic and paleontologic papers forming Group B were being read. Wednesday evening the members participated in a smoker at College Hall with the Geological Society of America and affiliated societies and listened to the address of Prof. J. F. Kemp, its retiring President. S e s s i o n o f T h u r s d a y , D e c e m b e r 29 President Stanton called the thirteenth annual meeting of the Society to order at 9.30 a. m., December 29, in the geological lecture-room of Geology-Biology Building. The first matter of business was the report of the Council. REPORT OF THE COUNCIL To the Paleontological Society, in thirteenth annual meeting assembled: Two meetings of the Council have been held during the year, one fol lowing the last annual meeting and the other immediately preceding the present session, all other business having been transacted by correspond-* ence. The Council’s administration of the Society’s business for the thirteenth year is presented in the following reports: S ecreta ry 's R eport To the Council of the Paleontological Society: The proceedings of the twelfth annual meeting of the Paleontological Society, held at Chicago, Illinois, December 28-30, 1920, are printed in volume 32, number 1, pages 119-156, of the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, printed March 31, 1921, and distributed to the members. The announcement that the thirteenth annual meeting of the Society would be held at Amherst, Massachusetts, December 28-30, 1921, as the guest of Amherst College, and the Council’s proposed nominations for officers for 1922 was issued February 22, 1921. M embership.—The Society has lost two of its Correspondents by death during the year—Dr. Henry Woodward, of the British Museum and editor of the Geological Magazine for over 50 years,