122 PROCEEDINGS OP THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



To the Paleontolofiical Society, in twelftli annual meeting assembled: 



The meetings of the Council, as heretofore, have been limited to one 

 following the last annual meeting and one immediately preceding the 

 present session, all other business having been transacted by correspond- 

 ence. The Council's administration of the Society's business for the 

 twelfth year is presented in the following reports : 



Secretary's Report 



To the Council of the Paleontological Society: 



The proceedings of the eleventh annual meeting of the Society, held 

 at Boston, Massachusetts, December 30-31, 1919, are printed in volume 

 31, pages 197-332, of the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. 



The Council's proposed nominations for officers and the announcement 

 that the twelfth annual meeting of the Society would be held at Chicago, 

 December 28-30, 1920, as the guest of the University of Chicago, was 

 issued March 15, 1920. 



The nomination of Dr. Arthur Hollick as representative of the Pale- 

 ontological Society on the Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts to 

 succeed Dr. F. H. Knowlton, whose term had expired, was approved by 

 the Council. 



Membership. — During the year the Society has lost three members by 

 death : j\f r. Walter E. Billings, of Ottawa, Ontario, nephew of E. Billings 

 and, like his distinguished relative, a student of the invertebrates of the 

 Lower Paleozoic rocks of Canada; Mr. Homer Hamlin, of Los Angeles, 

 California, and Mr. Wilbur L. Moody, of Berkeley, California, both stu- 

 dents of Pacific Coast paleontology and stratigraphy. 



One member has resigned during the year, the election of fourteen new 

 members has just been concluded, and five additional nominations are 

 awaiting consideration at the present meeting. This year four of our 

 members have been elected to fellowship in the Geological Society of 

 America. The result of these various changes leaves the total number of 

 members at the end of 1920 as 209. 



Publications. — Besides the Proceedings, eight papers published by the 

 Society in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America have been 

 distributed to the members during the course of the year. 



Pacific Coast Section. — The tenth annual meeting of the Pacific Coast 

 Section of the Paleontological Society was held at Seattle, Washington, 

 June 18, 1920, in conjunction with the Cordilleran Section of the Geo- 

 logical Society of America, the two societies participating in the fourth 

 annual meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Association for 



