| Rec | Mtg# | Year | Authors | Institution | Talk title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 471 | 1931 | Albert Howard Horton | USGS | Flow of the Potomac during the drought |
| 2 | 471 | 1931 | Margaret Dorothy Foster | USGS | Effect of the drought on the quality of the Potomac's water |
| 3 | 471 | 1931 | Carl J. Lawter | Effect of the drought on filtration processes for the Washington water supply | |
| 4 | 471 | 1931 | Walter Noy White | USGS | Effects of the drought on wells and springs |
| 5 | 471 | 1931 | Harry Baker Humphrey | US Department of Agriculture | Influence of vegetation on streamflow during the drought |
| 6 | 471 | 1931 | Marcus Isaac Goldman | USGS | Some biologic effects of the drought in tributaries of Chesapeake Bay |
| 7 | SP17 | 1931 | William Bowie | US Coast and Geodetic Survey | Shaping the Earth |
| 8 | 472 | 1931 | Clarence Samuel Ross | USGS | The Valles Mountain volcanic crater, New Mexico |
| 9 | 472 | 1931 | Adolph Knopf | Yale University | The Engels copper district, California |
| 10 | 473 | 1931 | Frank Charles Kracek | Geophysical Laboratory | Recent studies of alkali silicate systems |
| 11 | 473 | 1931 | Philip John Shenon | USGS | The Flathead mine, Montana, an unusual silver deposit |
| 12 | 473 | 1931 | Edward Oscar Ulrich | USGS | Highlights of the past two seasons' work in early Paleozoic stratigraphy |
| 13 | 474 | 1931 | Philip Burke King | USGS | Geology of the Marathon District, Texas |
| 14 | 474 | 1931 | William Walden Rubey | USGS | The Illinois River, a problem in channel equilibrium |
| 15 | 474 | 1931 | Nicholas Hunter Heck | US Coast and Geodetic Survey | Some recent developments in the field of seismology |
| 16 | 475 | 1931 | Charles Edwin Van Orstrand | USGS | Results of some recent geothermal surveys in the United States |
| 17 | 475 | 1931 | C. E. Tilley | Cambridge University | Structure and metamorphism of the southern Highlands of Scotland |
| 18 | 476 | 1931 | Clyde Polhemus Ross | USGS | The physiography of south-central Idaho |
| 19 | 476 | 1931 | Gerald Francis Loughlin | USGS | Geology of Leadville and vicinity, a review of old and recent studies |
| 20 | 477 | 1931 | John Calvin Reed; James Gilluly |
USGS | Heavy mineral assemblages in some plutonic rocks of eastern Oregon |
| 21 | 477 | 1931 | Arthur Maine Piper | USGS | Observations in the Dalles region, Oregon, bearing on the history of Columbia River |
| 22 | 477 | 1931 | Roger Clark Wells | USGS | Van't Hoft's studies of minerals deposited from sea water |
| 23 | 478 | 1931 | Clarence Norman Fenner; Arthur Louis Day |
Geophysical Laboratory | Borehole investigations in the Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park |
| 24 | 478 | 1931 | Walter Herman Bucher | University of Cincinnati | The mobile belts of the Earth |
| 25 | 479 | 1931 | William Gamewell Pierce | USGS | Small folds produced by slumping in southeastern Montana |
| 26 | 479 | 1931 | H. A. Marmer | US Coast and Geodetic Survey | The determination of mean sea level |
| 27 | 479 | 1931 | Wendell Phillips Woodring; W. S. W. Kew |
USGS | Tertiary and Pleistocene deposits of the San Pedro Hills, California |
| 28 | 480 | 1931 | Philip Burke King | USGS | Permian limestone reefs in the Van Horn region of western Texas |
| 29 | 480 | 1931 | Frank Cathcart Calkins | USGS | Petrography of drill cuttings from saline deposits |
| 30 | 480 | 1931 | Robert Van Vleck Anderson | Industry | Geology of the Coast Ranges of western Algeria |
| 31 | 481 | 1931 | James Madison Hill | US Bureau of Mines | A problem of beryllium ores |
| 32 | 481 | 1931 | George Rogers Mansfield | USGS | Further developments in southeastern Idaho geology |
| 33 | 482 | 1931 | Marius Robinson Campbell† | USGS | The ancient alluvial fan of the Potomac River |
| 34 | 482 | 1931 | Gerald Francis Loughlin; Albert Herbert Koschmann |
USGS | Physiography of the Magdalena District, New Mexico |
| 35 | 482 | 1931 | Eugene Thomas Allen | Geophysical Laboratory | Geysers |
| 36 | 483 | 1931 | Oscar Edward Meinzer | USGS | History and development of ground-water hydrology. (Presidential Address) |