PROCEEDINGS OF MEETING FOR FINAL ORGANIZATION HELD AT [THACA, 



NEW YORK, DECEMBER 27, 1888. 



la accordance with the call of the Committee of Organization, appointed 

 by an assemblage of geologists at Cleveland, Ohio, on August 14th, 1888, a 

 meeting was held at Ithaca, New York, on December 27th, 1888,' to com- 

 plete the organization of the American Geological Society. 



The meeting was held in the Botanical Hall of Cornell University, and 

 was called to order at 10.80 a. m. by Prof. Alexander Winchell, Chairman 

 of the Committee. The following Fellows were present : 



H. L. Fairchild, Rochester University, Rochester, N". Y. 



James Hall, State Museum, Albany, N. Y. 



C. H. Hitchcock, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H. 



J. F. Kemp, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



H. B. Nason, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. 



W J McGee, United States Geological Survey. 



J. J. Stevenson, University of the City of New York. 



I. C. White, West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va. 



H. S. Williams, Cornell University, Ithaca, 1ST. Y. 



J. F. Williams, Pratt Technical Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



S. G. Williams, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Alex. Winchell, Michigan University, Ann Arbor, Mich. 



N. H. Winchell, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. 



The Chairman, Prof. A. Winchell, laid on the table copies of the circulars 

 which had been issued, and addressed the meeting, detailing the work already 

 done and making recommendations on behalf of the Committee. 



The list of Original Fellows, numbering 98, who had already complied 

 with the requirements of the Provisional Constitution, Art. Ill, Section 1, 

 was read : 



Chas. Albert Ashburner, Penn Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



George F. Becker, United States Geological Survey, San Francisco, California. 



John C. Branner, State Geologist, Little Rock, Arkansas. 



Garland C. Broadhead, Professor of Geology, University of Missouri, Columbia, 

 Missouri. 



Samuel Calvin, Professor of Geology, State University of Iowa, Iowa City, [owa 



T. C. Chamberlin, President of Wisconsin University, Madison, Wis. 



James H. Chapin, Professor of Geology, St. Lawrence University. Post offi 

 address, Meriden, Conn. 



William B. Clark, Instructor in Palaeontology, Johns Hopkins University, Haiti- 

 more, Md. 



Edw. W. Claypole, Professor of Natural Science, Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio. 



John Collett, lately State Geologist of Indiana, Indianapolis, [nd. 



II— Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. I, 1890. ( 'J ) 



