BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEET­ ING OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, HELD AT ITHACA, NEW YORK, MONDAY-WEDNESDAY, DECEM­ BER 29-31, 1924. Charles P. Berkey, Secretary CONTENTS Page Session of Monday morning, December 2 9 . .. .................................................... 5 Report of the Council...................................................................................... 5 President’s report......................................................... ............................ 5 Secretary’s report...................................................................................... 7 Treasurer’s report....................................................................................... 9 Editor’s report............................................................................................. 10 Election of Auditing Committee.................................................................. 12 Election of officers, representatives, Correspondents, and Fellows.. 12 Necrology............................................................................................................... 14 Memorials.......................................................................................................... ... 14 Memorial of John Casper Branner (with bibliography) ; by R. A. F. Penrose, Jr............................................................................. 15 Memorial of Raphael Pumpelly (with bibliography) ; by Bailey Willis............... ......................................................................................... 45 Memorial of Edmund Otis Hovey (with bibliography); by James F. Kemp.............................................................................................. 85 Memorial of John James Stevenson (with bibliography) ; by I. C. White........ I . ..................................................................................... 100 Memorial of Thomas Leonard Watson (with bibliography) ; by Heinrich Ries.................................................................................... 116 Memorial tribute to Sir Archibald Geikie; by John M. Clarke... 128 Memorial tribute to Sir Jethro J. H. T eall; by Whitman Cross.. 129 Session for the presentation of scientific papers............................... 131 Remarks by President Farrand............................................................. 131 Titles and abstracts of papers.4............................................................. 132 Wasatch Mountains revisited (abstract) ; by Eliot Blackwelder.. 132 Structural nature and origin of the eastern Altai (abstract); by Charles P. Berkey and Frederick K. Morris........................... 134 Tectonic history of central Asia (abstract) ; by Charles P. Berkey and Frederick K. Morris............................................................... 134 Physiographic surfaces in the Front Range of northern Colorado and their equivalents on the Great Plains (abstract) ; by Kirtley F. Mather........................................................................... 134 Geologic mapping with airplane photographs in Arizona (ab­ stract) ; by Edward Sampson...................................................... 135 I:—B u l l . G e o l . So c . A m ., V o l . 36, 1924 Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-pdf/36/1/1/3429876/BUL36_1-0001.pdf by guest on 26 September 2021 2 PROCEEDINGS OP THE ITHACA MEETING 1‘ag« Address of the retiring President of the Paleontological Society, Edward W. Berry: On Correlation............................................................ liUi Session of Monday afternoon................................................................................. 13(5 Titles and abstracts of papers..................................................................... 136 Subaqueous terraces of the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence embayment (abstract) ; by Douglas Johnson................................ 136 Eustatic bench in Hawaii (abstract) ; by Chester K. Wentworth and Harold S. Palm er....................................................................... 130 A tropical peat bog (abstract); by Chester K. Wentworth......... 137 Wind-faceted stones from Wyoming (abstract) ; by Maurice G. Mehl............................................................................................................ 137 Erosional cycles in the Front Range of Colorado and their correlation (abstract) ; by Homer P. Little.................................. 138 Erosion in San Juan Canyon, Utah (abstract) ; by Hugh D. Miser 138 Course of the Gunnison River in Colorado (abstract) ; by E. B. Branson...................................................................................................... 139 Possible cause of the semi-arid climate of eastern North America in Triassic time (abstract) ; by Malcolm H. Bissell...................... 139 Physiographic significance of post-Miocene gravels of western South Dakota (abstract) ; by Harold R. Wanless...................... 140 Pleistocene Bermuda (abstract); by Robert W. Sayles and Thomas H. Clark.................................................................................... 141 Reconnaissance of the recessional moraines of the Finger Lakes region (abstract) ; by Frank B. Taylor.......................................... 142 Physiography of the California coast ranges (abstract) ; by Robin W illis.......................................................................................... ............... 143 Topography of active faulting in California (abstract) ; by Robin W illis.......................................................................................................... 143 Spokane flood beyond the channeled scablands (abstract) ; by J Harlen B retz................................................................................... .. 144 Meetings of Monday evening.................................................................................. 144 Presidential address by Waldemar Lindgren: Metasomatism.............. 144 Annual smoker.................................................................................................... 145 Session of Tuesday morning, December 30........................................................ 145 Report of Auditing Committee........................................................................ 145 Report on securities......................................................................................... 145 Work of the Division of Geology and Geography of the National Research Council; by David W hite.......................................................... 146 Report of the Committee on Sedimentation; by W. H. Twenhofel 147 Report of the Committee on Petroleum; by K. C. Heald.............. 147 Report of the Committee on Tectonics; by Walter H. Bucher___147 Report of the Committee on the Establishment of the Proposed Geological Abstract Jo u rn al; by A. C. Lawson............................ 147 Titles and abstracts of papers...................................................................... 147 Projected oceanographic investigations (abstract) ; by David W hite......................................................................................................... 147 A new field for the geologist (abstract) ; by Charles H. Behre, Jr. 147 Submarine physiography of the Gulf of Maine (abstract) ; by Douglas Johnson............................................................... , ................... 14# Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-pdf/36/1/1/3429876/BUL36_1-0001.pdf by guest on 26 September 2021 CONTENTS I’age Crypto-volcanic structures of Europe and America (abstract) : by W alter H. Bucher........................................................................... 149 Complex structure in the Spring Mountains, Nevada (abstract) : by Chester R. Longwell....................................................................... 150 Cretaceous and Tertiary formations of the Wasatch Plateau, Utah (abstract) ; by E. M. Spieker and John B. Reeside, J r . 150 Origin of the Santa Lucia coast range, California (abstract) ; by Parker D. T rask................................................................................... 151 Tuff craters of Oahu (abstract) ; by Chester K. Wentworth........ 151 Thrust-faulting in the Mount Diablo region of middle California (abstract) ; by Bruce L. C lark............................................................ 152 Session of Tuesday afternoon................................................................................ 153 Titles and abstracts of papers........................................................................ 153 Probable correlation between the last ice-retreat in North America and in Europe (abstract) ; by E rnst Antevs.................................... 153 Pleistocene pre-Wisconsin beds in Vermont (abstract) ; by Ernst Antevs......................................................................................................... 154 Glacial Lake Hackensack and adjacent lakes (abstract) ; by Chester A. Reeds.................................................................................... 155 The Kankakee torrent (abstract) ; by George E. Ekblaw and L. F. A thy............................................................................................... 155 Structural geology in the mid-continent region : a field for re­ search (abstract) ; by Sidney Powers.............................................