| Rec | Mtg# | Year | Authors | Institution | Talk title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 580 | 1940 | Wilbur Swett Burbank | USGS | The area of pseudo-landslide topography in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado |
| 2 | 580 | 1940 | Louis Wade Currier | USGS | Geologic features of Lowell quadrangle, Massachusetts |
| 3 | 580 | 1940 | Frederick William Lee | USGS | Contouring bedrock in a glaciated region by seismic methods |
| 4 | 581 | 1940 | Donnel Foster Hewett | USGS | The appraisal of metal reserves |
| 5 | 581 | 1940 | Ralph Jackson Roberts | USGS | Mercury deposits of the Bottle Creek District, Nevada |
| 6 | 581 | 1940 | Edwin Newell Goddard | USGS | Manganese deposits of the Philipsburg District, Montana |
| 7 | 582 | 1940 | George Gaylord Simpson | American Museum of Natural History | Land bridges and fossil mammals |
| 8 | 583 | 1940 | Lloyd Williams Stephenson | USGS | Summary of faunal studies of the Navarro group of Texas |
| 9 | 583 | 1940 | Julia Anna Gardner | USGS | The general relationships of the Midway fauna |
| 10 | 583 | 1940 | William Walden Rubey; Kiguma Jack Murata |
USGS | Chemical evidence bearing on origin of a group of hot springs |
| 11 | 584 | 1940 | Edgar Lee Stephenson | USGS | Geophysical and geological investigations of the Casper Mountain chromite deposit, Wyoming |
| 12 | 584 | 1940 | Sterling Brown Hendricks | US Department of Agriculture | Base exchange and properties of clays |
| 13 | 585 | 1940 | Fred Earl Ingerson | Geophysical Laboratory | Fabric criteria for distinguishing pseudoripple marks from ripple marks |
| 14 | 585 | 1940 | Richard Henry Jahns | USGS | Post-glacial flood history of the Connecticut River in Massachusetts |
| 15 | 585 | 1940 | Thomas Andrews Hendricks | USGS | Structure of the western part of the Ouachita Mountains, Oklahoma |
| 16 | 586 | 1940 | George Rogers Mansfield | USGS | The role of fluorine in phosphate deposition |
| 17 | 586 | 1940 | John Gerard Broughton | Syracuse University | Structural comparison of pre-Cambrian and Paleozoic rocks in northwestern New Jersey |
| 18 | 586 | 1940 | Rufus Harvey Sargent | USGS | Problems in the production of topographic maps |
| 19 | 587 | 1940 | Charles Butler Hunt | USGS | Mode of emplacement of stocks in the Henry Mountains, Utah and its significance in the interpretation of laccoliths |
| 20 | 587 | 1940 | Thomas P. Thayer | USGS | Chromite deposits of the Strawberry Range, Oregon |
| 21 | 587 | 1940 | Walter Clay Lowdermilk | US Department of Agriculture | Notes on the erosion in North Africa |
| 22 | 588 | 1940 | William Edwards Powers | Northwestern University | Multiple glaciation of Mauna Kea, Hawaii |
| 23 | 588 | 1940 | Philip Sidney Smith | USGS | Trends of Alaska mineral production |
| 24 | 588 | 1940 | Waldemar Theodore Schaller | USGS | A photographic technique for emphasizing mineral relations in hand specimens |
| 25 | 589 | 1940 | Joseph Thomas Pardee | USGS | Unusual currents in glacial Lake Missoula. (Presidential Address) |