PROCEEDINGS. 25 



First Meeting, December 3, 1880. 



Thirty-five gentlemen assembled in the Regents' Room of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, to hear the report of the Committee ap- 

 pointed to prepare a constitution for the projected society. Prof. 

 Riley acted as chairman and Mr. Goode as secretary. The com- 

 mittee presented its report, and the form of constitution proposed by 

 them was read article by article, and article by article modified and 

 adopted. The constitution as a whole, in the form appended to 

 these proceedings, was then adopted. The Society then adjourned 

 to Friday evening, December 10, at which time a meeting was ap- 

 pointed for the completion of the organization of the Society by the 

 election of a board of officers. 



Second Meeting, December 10, 1880. 



Twenty-two persons met in the usual place. Professor Gill was 

 called to the chair, and, on the motion of Prof. Ward, the Society 

 proceeded to ballot for officers for the ensuing year. The following 

 board of officers was elected : 



President — Theodore Gill. 



Vice-Presidents — C. V. Riley, J. W. Chickering, Lester F. 

 Ward, Henry Ulke. 



Secretaries — G. Brown Goode, Richard Rathbun. 



Treasurer — Robert Ridgway. 



Members of Council — J. H. Comstock, O. T. Mason, J. H. Kid- 

 der, A. F. A. King, George Vasey. 



The Society then adjourned to meet on the 24th of December. 



Third Meeting, December 24, 1880. 



The President occupied the chair, and thirty-one members were 

 present. 



Messrs. Riley, Goode and King were announced as having been 

 appointed a committee on communications. Dr. Tarleton H. Bean 

 presented a communication entitled Notes on a voyage along 

 the Coasts of Alaska and Siberia in the summer of 1880.* 



"Published in part in the New York Times for September 17, November 21, 

 and December 6, 1880. 



