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Baird Halberstadt, Oscar H. Hershey, Frederick 

 Brewster Loomis, Richard Swann Lull, George 

 Rogers Mansfield, Lawrence Martin, Samuel Wash- 

 ington McCallie, William John Miller, Malcolm 

 John Munn, Edward Orton, Jr., Philip S. Smith, 

 Warren Du Prg Smith, Cyrus Fisher Tolman, Jr., 

 Charles Will Wright. 



Correspondents elected December 2S, 1909- — Pro- 

 fessor Charles Barrois, Lille, France ; Professor W. 

 C. Brbgger, Christiania, Norway; Sir Archibald 

 Geikie, Haslemere, England; Professor Albert 

 Heim, Zurich, Switzerland; Professor Emanuel 

 Kayser, Marburg, Germany; Professor Eduard 

 Suess, Vienna, Austria; Professor Ferdinand 

 Zirkel, Bonn, Germany. 



The secretary announced the death during the 

 past year of Persifor Frazer and Daniel W. 

 Langton. 



The report of the committee on the formation 

 of the Paleontologieal Society was presented 

 through its chairman, W. B. Clark, as follows: 



" On February 18, 1909, at the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, New York City, your 

 committee, composed of W. B. Clark, chairman, 

 and Messrs. H. E. Gregory, J. M. Clarke and E. 0. 

 Hovey, C. W. Hayes being absent, met the organ- 

 ization committee of the Paleontologieal Society, 

 consisting of Charles Schuchert, chairman, and 

 Messrs. F. B. Loomis, David Wliite and T. W. 

 Stanton. Messrs. S. W. Williston and H. F. Os- 

 born, of the Paleontologieal Society, were absent. 

 The conferees went over the proposed constitution 

 of the new society article by article, and finally 

 adopted it in the form which was distributed to 

 the fellows of the society in March, 1909. 



" As organized, the Paleontologieal Society is a 

 section of the Geological Society of America, in 

 accordance with the expressed wish of the ma- 

 jority of paleontologists of the country, and only 

 fellows of the Geological Society of America are 

 eligible to fellowship in the Paleontologieal So- 

 ciety. Fellows of the Geological Society whose 

 work is primarily in paleontology may become 

 fellows of the Paleontologieal Society, on appli- 

 cation to the council of the latter, without further 

 payment of dues. Persons not fellows of the Geo- 

 logical Society who are engaged or interested in 

 paleontologieal work may become members of the 

 Paleontologieal Society by vote of the society on 

 nomination by two fellows and approved by the 

 council." 



The council recommended the adoption of the 

 following preamble and resolutions submitted by 

 the American Philosophical Society: 



" Whebeas the United States in former years 

 did much to increase our knowledge of the Ant- 

 arctic regions, by means of the expedition of 

 Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, U.S.N., and the voy- 

 ages of American whalers, and 



" Wheeeas there has been a great revival of 

 interest in recent years in the South Polar regions, 

 resulting in the despatching of scientific expedi- 

 tions to explore portions of this area by England, 

 Belgium, Sweden, Germany and France, and 



" Whereas large areas in the far south will 

 remain unexplored and many branches of science 

 would be benefited by the sending of an American 

 expedition to the far south, having for its object 

 the reexploration of Wilkes Land and the collec- 

 tion of scientific data relating to regions visited, 

 therefore be it 



" Resolved that the Geological Society of Amer- 

 ica respectfully urges the federal government to 

 consider the desirability of appropriating funds 

 for the purpose of fitting out a suitable vessel, 

 under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, 

 to undertake such exploration." 



The first annual meeting of the Paleontologieal 

 Society, organized under the arrangement noticed 

 above, was held at Cambridge, Mass., December 

 29 and 30, 1909, and the following program was 

 presented : 



After tlie presidential address had been deliv- 

 ered by Dr. John M. Clarke, a " Conference on the 

 Aspects of Paleontology " was held, at which 

 papers on assigned topics were read by members 

 of the Society by invitation of the council, as 

 follows: 

 Adequacy of the Paleontologic Record: R. S. 



Bassler. 

 Interdependence of Stratigraphy and Paleontol- 

 ogy: W. J. Sinclair and E. 0. Ulbich. 

 Biologic Principles of Paleogeography : Chables 



Schuchert. 

 Paleontologic Evidences of Climate: T. W. Stan- 

 ton and David White. 

 Migration: Henry S. Williams and Arthttb 



HOLLICK. 



Paleontologic Evidences of Adaptive Radiation: 



H. Fairfield Osborn. 

 Anatomy and Physiology in Extinct Organisms: 



Charles R. Eastman and Rudolph Ruede- 



MANN. 



Coritrihution-s to Morphology from Paleontology: 



William Bullock Clark. 

 Embryology and Paleontology: Richard S. Lull 



and William H. Dall. 



