372 proceedings of ottawa meeting. 



Session of Wednesday, Decembee 28 



The Society met in the railway committee-room of the House of Com- 

 mons. President G. K.Gilbert presided during the several sessions of 

 the meeting. 



At 10.20 a ni the President called the Society to order and after a word 

 of salutation introduced His Excellency, the * rOvernor-General of Canada. 

 Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley, who extended a hearty welcome to the 

 Fellows of the Society. Science, he said, was cosmopolitan and did not 

 admit of distinctions of race, creed or national boundary; as far as 

 science was concerned, all were one brotherhood. He assured the visitors 

 that they would be shown every hospitality while in the city. The 

 President made reply to the welcome of His Excellency, referring in 

 complimentary terms to Canadian hospitality. 



The Council report was read by the Secretary as follows : 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



To the Fellows of tin Geological Society of America, 



in Fifth Annual Meeting, 1892: 



Meetings of the Council. — During the past year the Council has held two 

 meetings, coincident with the meetings of the Society, each with four 

 sessions. A large amount of administrative business lias been done, 

 with earnestness and unity. 



Meetings of the Society. — The records of the two meetings held during 

 the Year, at ( !olumbus and Rochester, will be found in full in the printed 

 proceedings of the Bulletin. 



The attendance has been small, at Columbus twenty-three and at 

 Rochester thirty-four. The prosperity and success of the Society is, 

 however, not dependent upon the size of its meetings. The brief ex- 

 perience would seem to indicate that a larger attendance would he 

 secured at the great cities of the east, hut as an international society 

 it would not he proper to localize its sessions for the sake of larger 

 meetings. 



Membership. — The Society has lost three Fellows during the year by 

 death: Dr-I.S. Newberry, Dr T. Sterry Hunt and Professor.!. H. Chapin- 

 Four names have been dropped, by application of the rules, for non- 

 payment of dues. The latest printed roll of membership bears the 

 names of 209 living and 9 deceased 1'ellows. At the summer meeting 

 L3 men were elected, of whom 12 have qualified, namely : A. E. Barlow, 

 Ei. P. H. Brumell, M. R. Campbell, A. del Castillo, II. W. Fairbanks, 

 L. S. Griswold, A. P. Low.V. F. Marsters, W. B Scott, C. H. Smyth, Jr., 



