GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
January 10, 1951
The 695th meeting of the Geological Society of Washington was
held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club, Wednesday, January 10, 1951, at 8:10
p.m., President Sayre presiding.
The minutes of the 694th meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election of James J. Norton and
Allison R. Palmer, both of the U. S. Geological Survey, to membership in the
Society.
The Secretary read a letter from Arthur A. Baker, Chairman of
the Local Committee on arrangements for the 1950 annual meetings of the
Geological Society of America, the Mineralogical Society of America, the
Paleontological Society, and the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. The letter expressed the thanks of the Local
Committee for the active support provided by the Geological Society of Washington.
Also read was a joint resolution, transmitted with Dr. Baker's letter, of the
presidents of the four societies expressing appreciation for the effort all
individuals and organizations that contributed to the successful conduct of the
Annual meetings.
J. S. Williams introduced Dr. Helen M. Muir-Wood of the
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President Sayre reported that the Council, in response to the
motion adopted at the 58th Annual meeting on December 13, 1950, has done some
research on the possibility of serving a better grade of beer, and will
continue the research as provided in the amendment to the original motion.
The President also explained the electrical system provided
for notifying speakers when their time is up, and expressed the hope that the
speakers would stay within their allotted time.
The regular program followed:
G. A. Cooper – Facies in the
H. E. Rothrock - "Faulting in the anthracite fields of
Pennsylvania". Discussed by Woodring.
J. B. Mertie, Jr. – “Monazite deposits of the southeastern
Atlantic States”. Discussed by A. J. Stose, John P. Marble, and E. S. Larsen,
Jr.
Attendance: 145. The
Meeting was adjourned at, 9:42 p.m.
[signed Charles L. McGuinness]
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
January 26, 1951
The 696th meeting of the Geological Society of Washington was
held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club, Wednesday, January 24th, 1951, at
8:00 p.m., President Sayre presiding.
The minutes of the 695th meeting were read and approved as
amended.
The Secretary announced the election to active membership of
Laurence P. Buck, U. S. Geological Survey, Paul Bunton, Spencer Lens Division,
American Optical. Co., Richard W. Flach, Technical Laboratory, Federal Bureau
of investigation and R. H. Nesbitt, Office of the Chief of Engineers.
P. E. Cloud, Jr., announced that in response to the request
for papers sent out by the Committee on Communications, only 23 replies had
been received, 6 of which were from members who did not have papers to
present. Anyone who had or might prepare
a paper was urged to turn in the form or notify a member of the Communications
Committee. Some of the papers scheduled for forthcoming meeting were mentioned
briefly.
The regular program followed:
W. P. Woodring - Extraordinary Eocene foraminifera from
C. S. Denny - Wisconsin frost-action in north-central
Attendance: 118
The meeting adjourned at 9:37 p.m.
W. G. Pierce
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
February 14, 1951
The 697th meeting of the Geological Society of Washington was
held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 1951, at 8:00
pm, Vice President Lohman presiding.
The minutes of the 696th meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election to active membership of
Dr. A. L. Washburn, Executive Director, the Arctic Institute of North America;
John Imbrie, Yale University, now engaged in research work at the U.S. National
Museum; and the following members of the U. S. Geological Survey: J. Thomas
Dutro, Harold Saunders, Raymond A. Lewandowski, Ruth Todd, Donald E. Outlaw and
Thomas E. Eakin.
Lloyd G. Henbest gave an informal communication on How to
prevaricate with Statistics, with special reference to statistical analysis in
paleontologic systematics where the error of sampling has enormous proportions.
Discussed by Cloud and Chayes.
The regular program followed.
Henry Faul and A. Y. Sakakura - Radon and helium in natural
gases. Discussed by Mertie, Stieff, Ingerson, Miser and Milton.
J. I. Tracey, Jr., - Field relations of the Arkansas bauxite
deposits. Discussed by Lohman Butler, Coats, Carroll, Pecora, W. K. Andrews and
Henbest.
Mackenzie Gordon, Jr.- Origin of the
Attendance 142
The meeting adjourned at 10:01 pm
W. G. Pierce
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
February 28, 1951
The 698th meeting of the Geological Society of Washington was
held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 1951, at 8:00
pm, Vice-President Lohman presiding.
The minutes of the 697th meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election to active membership of
William Hill, Bureau of Plant Industry, and the following members of the U. S.
Geological Survey: John H. Christensen, Mrs.Margaret M. Saunders, Mrs.
Elizabeth Hill Grayson, Fred Hildebrand, Manual N. Bass, Joseph H. Kerr, Joseph
R.Houston and Louis Pavlides. Miss Verde M. Doughtery, U.S. Geol. Survey,
Vice-President Lohman informed the Society that the American
Geological Institute has announced that the sixth television program of the
current
The regular program followed.
Wilbert H. Hess - Age of the
Delos E. Flint - The Ryukyu arc. Discussed by Williams, Cloud
and Woodring.
William E. Davies - Terrace systems of the
Attendance 138
The Meeting adjourned at 9:55 pm.
W. G. Pierce
Secretary.
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
March 14, 1951
The 699th meeting of the Geological Society of Washington was
held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club, Wednesday, March 14, 1951 at 8:00
pm, President Sayre presiding.
The minutes of the 698th meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election to active membership of:
Harry Perry, Dept. of Engineering, Pioneer Branch, Engineer School, Ft.
Belvoir,Va.; Master Sgt. Kirk D. Dunan, Water Supply Board, Engineering
Research and Development Laboratory, Ft. Belvoir, Va. (now assigned to Military
Geology Branch, U.S.G.S.); Edward W. Majewski, David P. Pitts, Arthur D. Watt,
U. S. Geological Survey; Helen M. Strong, Oak Park, Ill., was transferred from
active to corresponding membership.
The regular program followed.
Harold Jeffreys - The structure of the earth. Discussed by
Adams, Lovering, Cloud, D. E. Flint, A.L. Washburn, Faul, Coates and Yagi.
Attendance 224
The meeting adjourned at 9:40 pm.
W. G. Pierce
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
March 28, 1951
The 700th meeting of the Geological Society of Washington was
held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club on March 28, 1951 at 8 pm, Vice President
Lohman presiding.
The minutes of the 699th meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election to active membership of
the following: Robert G. Pike, Paul M. Johnston, George Plafker, Military
Geology Branch, U.S.G.S.,
I. G. Sohn gave an informal communication on the upward
progression of certain ostracode protuberances through a part of the Paleozoic
era.
Regular program followed.
William A.Fisher – Photogeology of northern
Louis C. Peltier -
Pleistocene terraces of the
Richard W. Flach – Geology in crime detection. Discussed by
Lovering, Brokaw, Whitmore, Murata, Jevan (FBI), Van Alstine, Bronner, Davis,
Mertie and Crittenden.
Attendance 162.
The meeting was adjourned at 10 pm.
[signed Charles L. McGuinness]
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
April 11, 1951
The 701st meeting of the Geological Society of Washington was
held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club on April 11, 1951 at 8:00 pm,
President Sayre presiding.
The minutes of the 700th meeting were read and approved.
Mr. Goldman made the suggestion that in view of the large and
diversified membership of the Society, a critic or commentator who wished to
discuss a paper, first state his name. Considerable discussion ensued, which
culminated in the suggestion being presented as a motion which was approved by
a majority vote of the members-present (62 for, 35 against).
The regular program followed.
Philip B. King - The base of the Cambrian in the
A. R. Palmer - The doctors' dilemma - the base of the Cambrian
system.
The program chairman asked that discussion of the three papers
follow the last paper. The papers were discussed by Marble, E. Cloos, Wilbur
Nelson, Ralph Miller, Del Flint, Cloud, Carroll, Berman, Pipiringos, Woodring,
Johnson, E. S. Larsen Jr., Lohman, Pecora, Ladd, Williams and Reeves.
Attendance 178
The meeting adjourned at 10:15 pm.
W. G. Pierce
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
April 25, 1951
The 702nd meeting of the Geological Society of Washington was held
in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club on April 25th at 8:00 pm President
Sayre presiding.
The minutes of the 701st meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election to active membership of
James Double, U. S. Geological Survey, Dr. Nelson C. Dale, recently retired as
head of the Dept. of Geology,
Informal Communications:
Dr. H. G. Raggatt, Recent eruption of
Michael Fleischer, New methods for making chemical analysis of
rocks.
T. S. Lovering, Stratigraphic revisions in the East Tintic
Mountains, Utah.
The regular program followed:
Donald E. Outlaw, Ground water problems of the Winter Garden
area in
D. F. Hewett - Progress in the study of Mohave Geology.
Discussed by Lovering, Thayer and Butler.
Atteidance 155
The meeting adjourned at 10:12 pm.
W. G. Pierce
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
SECRETARY'S REPORT
October 24, 1951
The 703rd meeting of the Geological Society of Washington was
held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club, on October 24, 1951, at 8:08 pm,
President Sayre presiding.
The minutes of the 702d meeting were read and approved.
Informal Communications:
J.S. Williams gave a brief report on the proceedings and
conclusions of the 3rd Heerlen Congress of Carboniferous stratigraphy and
geology, held at
The regular program followed:
Harold V. Anderson, - Mississippi River mud lumps. Discussed
by Denny, H. Johnson, Van Alstine, Cloud, Del Flint, Goldman and Ladd.
John T. Hack, - Origin and development of the Plateau deposits
of Southern Maryland. Discussed by Woodring, Sayre, Thomas, McGuinness,
McKelvey and Cobb.
Thomas A. Steven, - Emplacement and deuteric alteration of the
Attendance: 115.
The meeting adjourned at 10:08 pm.
W. G. Pierce
Secretary
Geological Society of
SECRETARY'S REPORT
November 14, 1951
The 704th meeting of the Geological Society of Washington was
held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club on November 14, 1951, at 8:15 pm,
President Sayre presiding.
The minutes of the 703rd meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election to active membership of:
Maj. J. W. Wyckoff, Research & Development Board, Department of Defense,
Lewis O. Quam, Office of Naval Research, Miss Elizabeth Warren Olmsted,
formerly Assistant Professor of Geology and Geography at Smith College and now
in Washington, and the following members of the.
The Secretary requested that, in the future, sponsors of
nominees for membership in the Society furnish the nominees' full addresses.
The Society was privileged to be the host of the Colorado
Scientific Society for a brief ceremony in which A. H. Koschman of that Society
presented to Dr.Walter Curran Mendenhall a silver certificate announcing his
election as the third honorary member of the Colorado Society.
The regular program, including admonitions by President Sayre
regarding adherence to scheduled time limits, followed:
Leason H. Adams: Current status of knowledge of the interior
of the earth. Discussed by Lovering, Balsley, Rubey, Sayre, and H. Johnson.
Arthur J. Boucot: Stratigraphy and structure of the Moose
River area,
Henry R. Joesting: The future of geology. Discussed briefly by an unidentified
gentleman and ardently by Wells.
Attendance: 171
The meeting was adjourned at 10:05 pm.
[signed Charles L. McGuinness]
Secretary.
Geological Society of
Secretary's Report,
Nov. 28, 1951
The 705th meeting of the Geological Society of Washington was
held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmas Club on Nov. 28, 1951 at 8:00 pm.,
President Sayre presiding.
The minutes of the 704th meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election to active membership of
Richard E. Byrd: U. S. Navy Hydrographic Office and the following members of
the U. S. Geological Survey: Martha C. Bryant, Mary Frances Byrd, Robert E.
Davis Donald H. Kupfer, Thomas D. Murphy, Jane E. Pollock, Daphne D. Riska.
The regular program followed:
George W. Tyrrell: Geochemistry of sediments. Discussed by
Andrews, Stadnichenko, Coates, Pecora, Fleischer, Cloud, Sayre and Murata.
Attendance: 176
The meeting adjourned at 9:30 pm.
W. G. Pierce
Secretary
Geological Society of
Secretary's Report
December 12, 1951
The 706th meeting of the Geological Society of Washington was
held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club on December 12, 1951 at 8:05 p.m.,
President Sayre presiding.
The minutes of the 705th meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election to active membership of
Ernest I. Rich of the U. S. Geological Survey.
Vice-President Lohman then took the chair for the regular
program which followed:
A. Nelson Sayre: Our water supply, 1951.
Attendance: 102.
The meeting adjourned at 9:00 p.m.
W. G. Pierce
Secretary
Geological Society of
59th Annual Meeting
December 12, 1951
The 59th Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of
Washington held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club, was called to order by
President Sayre at 9:15 P.M. with 59 members present.
The minutes of the 58th Annual Meeting were read and approved.
The Annual report of the Secretaries for the year 1951 were
read and approved.
The Annual report of the Treasurer was presented by Treasurer
Marie Lindberg. The report of the Auditing Committee, consisting of Earl
Ingerson (Chairman), Michael Fleischer and George Faust was read by the
Secretary. R. H. Coates raised the
question as to whether it was the correct accounting procedure to add the bad
checks to disbursements or subtract it from income. Mrs. Lindberg stated that she was not the
Treasurer at the time they were entered as disbursements, but that this
procedure was the same as that which was followed by the Mineralogical
Society. P. E. Cloud called attention to
the fact that the Treasurer and the Auditing Committee are all from the
Geochemistry and Petrology Branch, and commented that this looks like
collusion. The Treasurer stated that one
of the bad checks was from a member of Mr. Cloud's Paleontology and
Stratigraphy Branch. At this point J. S. Williams moved that the Society
proceed with the regular order of business. A motion that the reports of the
Treasurer and Auditing Committee be accepted was approved.
The committee for awarding a prize for the best paper of the
year 1951, consisting of W. P. Woodring (Chairman), W. H. Bradley and W. W. Rubey
(Deputy for T. B. Nolan) announced the award of $25, to Mackenzie Gordon, Jr.
for his paper on "Origin of the Arkansas bauxite deposits" which was
presented at the meeting on February 14, 1951. President Sayre explained that
the anonymous donor of first and second prizes for the past several years had
not established a prize for the current year but that the Council had provided
this year's award from the funds of the Society. He expressed the hope that some public
spirited person would provide the donation and that the awards would be
continued. Mr. Rubey remarked that since
the prize donation has been made continuously for 25 years, he thought that the
donor had died. Mr. Sayre replied that
he didn't believe this was so, but that there was room for 2 schools of
thought. The anonymous donor still remains anonymous.
The Society then proceeded with the election of officers for
the year 1952. President Sayre appointed J. H. Balsley, Al Subitzky, Frank
Whitmore, Alvin Van Valkenburg, Jr., J. J. Fahey, Arthur Butler and John Eric
as tellers.
The nominations that had been announced by the Committee on
Nominations were presented, and the election of President was called to order.
It was moved and seconded that nominations be closed and that the Secretary
cast a unanimous ballot for
Election of First Vice-President was called to order. Tom Thayer made a short campaign speech in
behalf of candidate Wells. It was moved
and seconded that nominations be closed. Motion carried. F. G. Wells was
elected.
The election of 2nd Vice-President was called to order. A
motion that the nominations be closed was approved. Donald H. Dow was elected.
The election of Secretaries was called to order, one for one
year to fill the vacancy of W. G. Pierce resigned, and one for the regular term
of two years. President.Sayre announced the decision of the Council that the
nominee receiving the most votes would serve for two years, and the nominee
receiving the second largest number would serve for the one year unexpired
term. It has previously been announced by the President that the Council had
accepted the requests of Martha S. Carr and W. T. Pecora that their names be
withdrawn. On a call for additional nominations Garald Parker and Charles Denny
were nominated from the floor. Garald Parker was elected for the one year term
and Paul Averitt.was elected for the 2 year term.
The election of Treasurer was called to order. There were no
additional nominations and it was moved that the Secretary be instructed to
cast a unanimous ballot for Marie L. Lindberg. Motion seconded and carried,
with Cloud dissenting.
Election of Members at Large of the Council was called to
order. Woodring asked for the affiliation of the candidates and the information
was supplied by Fahey. President Sayre
announced that three members of the Council were to be elected for 2 year terms
and one member was to be elected for a 1 year term to fill the vacancy of
Joshua I. Tracey, Jr., resigned. A
motion that the nominations be closed was approved. Margaret D. Foster was
elected for 1 year and Mackenzie Gordon, W. H. Heers and G. G. Lill were
elected for 2 years.
It was moved that nominations for Vice-President of the Washington
Academy of Science, representing the Geological Society of Washington, be
closed, and that the Secretary be instructed to cast a unanimous ballot for A.
N. Sayre. Motion recorded and carried.
Meeting adjourned at 10:10 P.M.
W. G. Pierce
Secretary