GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
January 13, 1960
The 806th meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, January 13, beginning at 8:00 P. M. with
President Harry S. Ladd presiding.
The minutes of the 805th meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary made announcements concerning a forthcoming data
processing workshop and exhibit sponsored by the Geological Survey and a new
volume recently published by the American Geologic Institute.
The Secretary then announced the election to membership by
action of the Council of the following: James D. Vine, U. S. Geological Survey;
Olcott Gates, The Johns Hopkins University; Geza Teleki,
Carl Dane, Chairman of the Awards Committee for 1960,
discussed the criteria to be used in selecting the best papers, asserting that
anyone can judge an egg.
The field trips planned in connection with the A.A.P.G.
meetings this April in
An informal communication was presented by Frank Whitmore, who
discussed the geology of Big Bone Lick,
A second and third informal communication were given by Robert
Guillou concerning a lecture on the Mohole by Harry
Hess before the Pick and Hammer Club on January 21; and a low-flying airborne
radioactivity survey to be made by the Geological Survey over the streets of
Washington, D. C.
The regular program followed:
F. Raymond Fosberg --- Vegetation
and the geologist. Discussed by Tom Thayer, Don White, Art Kinkel,
Henry Faul. (Ray Fosberg
gave another paper at Paul's request in capsule form on the origin of
petroleum.)
Lloyd C. Henbest -- Classification,
habits, and shell mineralogy of late Paleozoic sedentary foraminifera.
Discussed by Harry Ladd, Ray Fosberg, Greg Sohn, and Don White.
C. A. Hopson and J. G. Moore -- Dike swarm in the Sierra
Nevada and
Attendance: 101
The meeting adjounred at 10:06 P. M.
John T. Hack
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
January 27, 1960
The 807th meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, January 27, beginning at 8:00 P. M. with
President Harry S. Ladd presiding.
The minutes of the 806th meeting were read and approved.
The secretary announced the election to membership of Gray
Edwards, Soil Testing Laboratory, Andrews Field.
An informal communication was given by Harlan Bergquist, who announced that a charter flight to Europe
was being organized by the Interior Department Recreation Association that
might be used by members of the association who wished to attend the
A memorial to Wilbert H. Hass was presented by I. Gregory Sohn.
The regular program followed:
Wayne E. Hall – Geochemical study of the lead-silver ore from
the
Charles S. Denny - Formation of alluvial fans. Discussed by
Tom Thayer, Tom Thayer, Lloyd Henbest, Gene Simpson,
and Tom Thayer.
Isidore Zietz - The
art of aeromagnetic interpretation - fine comb vs. broad brush. Discussed by
Brian Skinner, Walter White, Bob Neuman, Harry Smedes, Tom Dutro, and Gene Simpson.
Attendance: 129
The meeting adjourned at 9:48 P. M.
John T. Hack
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
February 10, 1960
The 808th meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, February 10, at 8:00 P. M. with
President Harry S. Ladd presiding.
The minutes of the 807th meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election to membership of Herbert A.
Waite, U. S. Geological Survey,
President Ladd announced the death of George W. Stose on January 30.
Dr. Olavi Kouvo,
of
An informal communication was presented by G. Arthur Cooper,
entitled: Some new structures in brachiopods.
The regular program followed:
Michael Fleischer and W. O. Robinson -- Some problems in the
geochemistry of fluorine, presented by Mike Fleischer. Discussed by Ed Roedder,
Paul Barton, Marcus Goldman, Ralph Van Alstine, and
Don White.
Adrian Richards -- Soil mechanics in marine geology. Discussed
by E-an Zen (twice), Dave Doan (twice), Sam Altschuler,
Ed Roedder, Walter White, Henry Faul, and a gentleman
on the north side of the hall whom the Secretary has been unable to identify.
Harry E. LeGrand -- A summary of the
geology of the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Discussed by Jim Owen, Ken Lohman, George Cohee, and the
unidentified gentleman on the north side of the hall.
Attendance: 150.
The meeting adjourned at 9:35 P. M.
John T. Hack
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF VASHINGTON
Secretary's Report
February 24, 1960
The 809th meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, February 24th, at 8:00 P. M., with
President Harry S. Ladd presiding.
The minutes of the 808th meeting were read and approved.
Walter S. White reluctantly presented an informal communication
concerning a hole of uncertain origin that he had found in his back yard. It
compares, he said, rather favorably with the Mohole, and is deeper.
The Secretary then announced the election of six new members
to the Society: Mathew W. Norton,
The President announced the death of two members -- William D.
Urry and Mary F. Bugbee.
The regular program followed:
A. C. Mason, M. M. Elias, R. J. Hackman,
and A. B. Olson -- Terrain study and map of the surface of the moon. Delivered by
E. M. Shoemaker -- Ballistics of the ray system and origin of
the lunar crater Copernicus. Discussed (insofar as the Secretary and his
informers could determine) by Ray Benton, Tom Lovering,
Paul Lowman, Phil Guild, Brian Skinner, James Q. Gant, John O'Keefe and Bill Pecora.
Robert Jastrow.-- Lunar Exploration.
Discussed by Ray Benton (twice), Henry Faul, Brian
Skinner, Marcus Goldman, Ed Roedder, Tom Lovering,
John O'Keefe and Ed Shoemaker.
Attendance, approximately 293 plus about 10 standees in the
foyer.
The meeting adjourned at 10:10 P. M.
John T. Hack
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF VASHINGTON
Secretary's Report
March 9, 1960
The 810th meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, March 9, at 8:00 P. M., with President
Harry S. Ladd presiding.
The minutes of the 809th meeting were read and approved.
President Ladd announced that up to now the speakers have done
a good job of limiting their papers to the time allotted. He hopes that this practice will continue.
The President then announced the death of two members, Joseph
T. Pardee and Arthur L. Day, who both died on March
2.
The Secretary announced the election to membership of Evelyn
Z. Sinha, Washington, D. C.
An informal communication was presented by K. E. Lohman on the subject of the lantern slides prepared for
the forthcoming A.A.P.G. meetings in
Ray Douglass presented a communication on an occurrence of fusulinid foraminifera in Paleozoic limestones
of southern
The regular program followed:
G. H. Davis - Erosion and deposition by avalanches in the
Sierra Nevada,
W. H. Durham - World-wide runoff of dissolved solids - a
progress report. Discussed by Don White
(twice), Pres Cloud, M. Davidian, Josh Tracey, Warren Hastings, and Francis Johnson.
Nicholas Hotton III - Transitional tetrapods: scaly amphibians, and hairy reptiles. Discussed
by Lloyd Henbest.
Attendance, 60.
The meeting adjourned at 9:40 P. M.
John T. Hack,
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
March 23, 1960
The 811th meeting of the Society was. held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, March 23, at 8:00 P. M. with President
Harry S. Ladd presiding.
The minutes of the 810th meeting were read, and after making
the corrections and editorial changes offered by Doug Kinney and Helen Foster,
were approved by the silent approbation of the assembly.
The death of J. Brookes Knight on March 21 was announced by
President Ladd.
Dean Carder made an announcement of a talk to be given April 1
by Bruce A. Bolt of the University of Sydney, Australia, on seismic evidence
for the existence of the inner core.
The President then announced the terms of the Great Dane
Award, a new award to be bestowed this year by the Society for the best
informal communication. The prize has
not been decided upon but will be suitable.
The Secretary announced the election to membership of: Edmund
F. LeRoux, U. S. Geological Survey; Vincent J. Marteka, Jr., U. S. Geological Survey; Paul C. Merritt,
Mining Engineering,
An informal communication was presented by H. D. Miser on the
mining of
Henry Paul then read part of an eloquent paper by Arthur
Holmes in which, Dr. Holmes discussed the transitory value of his own as well
as other time scales conceived by scientists.
The regular program followed:
J. P. Owens and J. P. Minard -
Distinction of primary versus reworked glauconite
from the New Jersey Coastal Plain.
Presented by J. P. Owen.
Discussed by Marcus Goldman, Mike Fleischer, E-an Zen, Harry Ladd, Josh
Tracey, Bill Benson, Sam Altschuler, and Doug Kinney.
Irving Breger - Geochemical aspects
of irradiation of coal in nuclear reactors. Discussed by Henry Faul.
Philip E. Lamoreux - Hydrogeologic problem in the western
Attendance: 172.
The meeting adjourned at 10:18 P. M.
John T. Hack,
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
April 13, 1960
The 812th meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, April 13, at 8:00 pm with President Harry
S. Ladd presiding.
The minutes of the 811th meeting were read and approved. The
Secretary announced the election to membership of: Roger van Vloten, Paul H. Jones, George H. Dixon, E. Julia Horton,
May Defandorf, and Martin Weiss all of the U.S.
Geological Survey; Allan Ballard, U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office; and Charles B.
Lennahan, Johns Hopkins Univ. Operations Research
Office, Bethesda, Maryland.
The Secretary read the list of winners of citations from the
Society for the D.C. Science Fair, as judged by our representative Ellis Yochelson. Leonard Vacher, Senior from
There were no informal communications.
The regular program followed:
L. B. Leopold and R. A. Bagnold--
Some hydraulic characteristics of curved channels in relation to meanders.
Discussed by Rubin (twice), Joesting, McGuinness, D. White, Altschuler,
and Doan.
Helen L. Foster-- Quaternary volcanoes in
John B. Mertie, Jr.-- Analytic
classification and quadriplanar charting of analyses
with nine or more components. Discussed by Skinner.
Attendance: 135
The meeting adjourned at 9:30 pm.
J. Thomas Dutro, Jr .
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
October 12, 1960
The 813th meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, October 12, at 8:00 pm with President
Harry S. Ladd, presiding.
The minutes of the 812th meeting were read and approved. The
Secretary announced the election to membership of: George Q. Williams,
Petroleum Economics, Navy Dept.; Bruce Doe, Geophysical Laboratory; L. E.
Newcomb, Water Resources Division, U. S. Geol. Survey; J. P. Akers, Ground
Water Branch, U. S. Geol. Survey (
The Secretary made three announcements concerning the meeting
dates for the next three meetings; the payment of delinquent dues; and a
meeting of local AAPG members to be held directly after the GSW meeting.
William Dempsey, who was not present, did not make an announcement
about the Pick and Hammer picnic. In his
absence, President Ladd reminded those in the audience that the picnic would be
held next Saturday at Grove #6 in
R. B. Neuman announced that N. C. Glaessner would speak at the next meeting of the Paleontological Society of Washington, Wednesday evening
October 199 on "The Late Precambrian of South Australia and its
fauna."
President Ladd announced the death of the following members of
the Society: D. M. Davidson and F. C. Kracek.
Ellis Yochelson read a memorial to
J. Brookes Knight. There were no unscheduled informal communications.
Two scheduled informal communications were presented: the
first by J. R. Balsley who discussed mainly the
meetings of the IUGG at Helsinki and the advances in geophysics that were
announced there; the second by P. E. Cloud, Jr. who concentrated on the
International Geological Congress at Copenhagen and the field trips that were
held in conjunction with it.
The regular program followed:
Harris B. Stewart, Jr. -- Submarine "dunes" on
Georges Shoal. Discussed by Neuman, Skinner, and Altschuler.
Kiguma J. Mrurata
-- The 1959-60 eruption of
Attendance: 233
The meeting adjourned at 10:20 pm.
J. Thomas Dutro Jr.
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
November 9, 1960
The 814th meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, November 9, at 8:06 P. M., with President
Harry S. Ladd presiding.
The minutes of the 813th meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election to membership of: P. W.
Johnson, U. S. Geological Survey; Joseph Haffty, U.
S. Geological Survey; Harry E. LeGrand, U. S.
Geological Survey; Roy E. Oltman, U. S. Geological
Survey; Robert H. Rose, National Park Service; Phebe
R. Doan,
The secretary also announced that in the future abstracts of
papers presented at the meetings will be published in the Journal of the
Washington Academy of Science, in the next issue following the meeting.
Abstracts must be restricted to 250 words.
J. Frank Schairer read a memorial to
Arthur L. Day.
Frank C. Whitmore presented an informal communication
concerning the occurrence of a large whale skeleton in the Yorktown formation
at
The regular program followed:
R. L. Smith, R. A. Bailey, and C. S. Ross -- Calderas: aspects
of their structural evolution and their relation to ring complexes. Discussed
by Pecora, Stewart,
F. J. Brandtner -- Late Pleistocene
chronology of eastern
Felix Chayes -- Numerical
correlation and petrographic variation. Discussed by Cloud.
Attendance: 82
The meeting adjourned at 10:05 P. M.
John T. Hack
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
November 30, 1960
The 815th meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, November 30, at 8:00 P. M., with
President Harry S. Ladd presiding.
The minutes of the 814th meeting were read and approved with
one correction offered by Phil Guild relating to the number of papers that had
been discussed by Pres Cloud.
Present Ladd announced the recent death of two members, Julia
A. Gardner and Ralph W. Richards.
The Secretary announced the nominations of the nominating
committee for 1961:
President -- G. Arthur Cooper
First Vice-President -- Harold M. Bannerman
Second Vice-President -- C. L. McGuinness
Secretary -- Frank C. Whitmore Jr. (two year term)
Treasurer -- Margaret Cooper
Members at large of the Council (two year term) – Edward C. T.
Chao, Mark P. Connaughton,
David B. Stewart
Delegate to the
The Secretary then announced the election to membership of the
following: Raymond E. Whitla, Office of Chief of
Engineers, U. S. Army; Eleanor de Chadenedes, Board
of Geographic Names; Ellsworth R. Swift,
L. W. Currier read a memorial to J. T. Pardee
prepared by Charles Park.
In an informal communication Martin Russell invited the
society’s members to the showing of some documentary scientific films by the
National Academy of Sciences.
The regular program followed:
P. W. Guild -- "Metallogenic"
maps.
S.
V. P. Sokoloff -- Separation of
tantalum from niobium in bacterial cultures. Discussed by Sisler
and Pecora.
Attendance: 100
The meeting adjourned at 9:35 P. M.
John T. Hack,
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
December 14, 1960
The 816th meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, December 14, at 8:04 p.m., with President
Harry S. Ladd presiding.
The minutes of the 815th meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election of five new members: Arne
J. Aadland, Arthur E. Smith, Daniel P. Spangler,
Beach Erosion Board, Corps of Engineers; Frank J. Kleinhampl,
U. S. Geological Survey,
Our President then gave up the chair. The speaker of the evening was introduced by
our Second Vice President, Walter S. White, the man with the hole in his
backyard.
The presidential address followed - Harry S. Ladd: Life in the
Attendance: 108
The meeting. adjourned at 10:05 p. m. [Ed: Must be 9:05]
John T. Hack
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
68th Annual Meeting
December 14, 1960
The 68th Annual Meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, December 14, at 9:15 p. m., President
Harry S. Ladd presiding.
The minutes of the 67th Annual Meeting were read and approved.
The annual report of the Secretaries for 1960 was read and
approved.
The annual report of the Treasurer was then presented by
Margaret Cooper. Among other statistics Marge noted that our net assets had
increased during the past year by $318.43. Citing the fact that $359.80 had
been spent for beer during the year she remarked that the Society was one of
the thirstiest organizations that she had ever served.
The report of the Auditing Committee was presented by its
chairman, George Cohee, who said that the books
balanced even to a penny, the bonds were in their proper place, and the
Treasurer should be commended for an excellent job.
The President then attempted to get on with the presentation
of the awards but was restrained by Mike Fleischer who insisted that the two
above reports must be approved by the members. The reports were approved as read.
The report of the Awards Committee was then presented by Carl
Dane, its chairman. Other members of the committee were Lloyd Henbest, Lee McGuinness, Harry Smedes, and Meyer Rubin.
An honorable mention went to Luna B. Leopold for his
presentation of the paper by L. B. Leopold and R. A. Bagnold
- Some hydraulic characteristics of curved channels in relation to meanders.
The second prize was shared by two speakers: Roy Bailey for
the paper by R. L. Smith, R. A. Bailey, and C. S. Ross - Calderas: aspects of
their structural evolution and their relation to ring complexes; and Mike
Fleischer for the paper, Mike Fleischer and W. O. Robinson--Some problems in
the geochemistry of fluorine.
The first prize was awarded to C. A. Hopson for the paper by
C. A. Hopson and J. G. Moore--Dike swarm in the Sierra Nevada and
The "Great Dane" award for the best informal
communication was next presented by Charles S. Denny, chairman of a committee
that also included J. T. Hack and K. E. Lohman. This
award is not a regular award of the Society but was given this year for the
first time.
Honorable mentions were given to two speakers - Gus Cooper for
his communication on some new structures in Brachyopods,
and to Ray Douglass for his beautifully illustrated remarks on some Paleozoic Limestones of southern
The Great Dane award itself went to Frank Whitmore for his
discussion of a whale skeleton in the Yorktown formation at
The Sleeping Bear cup was presented by Ellis Yochelson, chairman of a committee that also included Jack
Johnston and Henry Faul. Ellis said that when he had blithely accepted
the job he assumed that he could simply make the most unexpected award possible
-- the best acceptance speech of a winner of the Sleeping Bear cup such as
"I am speechless." He was
disabused of this idea by the other committee members, however, who also
eliminated a lot of other good material by refusing to consider those people
who were obviously bucking for the award.
The committee finally settled on our President, Harry S. Ladd, for his
remark after Frank Whitmore's prize-winning informal communication that
"whales are indestructible."
Harry accepted the award proudly with the statement, "I,
too, am speechless."
The concluding item of business of the meeting was the
election of officers. The slate selected by the Nomination Committee was
elected unanimously.
The meeting adjourned at 9:55 p. m.
Attendance: 85
John T. Hack,
Secretary