report of the council 5 



Session" of Tuesday, December 28 



The first general session of the Society was called to order at 9.15 

 o'clock a. m., Tuesday, December 28, at the George Washington Univer- 

 sity Medical School, Washington, District of Columbia, by President 

 Coleman. 



The report of the Council for the year ending November 30, 1915, was 

 presented as follows : 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



To the Geological Society of America, in twenty-eighth annual meeting 

 assembled: 



The regular annual meeting of the Council was held at Philadelphia, 

 Pennsylvania, in connection with the meeting of the Society, December 

 29-31, 1914. 



The details of administration for the twenty-seventh year of the exist- 

 ence of the Society are given in the following reports of the officers : 



Secretary's Report 



To the Council of the Geological Society of America: 



Meetings. — The proceedings of the annual general meeting of the So- 

 ciety held at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 29-31, 1914, have 

 been recorded in volume 26, pages 1-128; of the Cordilleran Section, 

 pages 129-140, and of the Paleontological Society, pages 141-170, of the 

 Bulletin. 



Membership. — During the past ) r ear the Society has lost four Fellows 1 

 by death — Theodore B. Comstock, Orville A. Derby, Joseph A. Holmes, 

 and William J. Sutton. One resignation has become effective. The 

 names of the nineteen Fellows elected at the Philadelphia meeting have 

 been added to the list, all of them having completed their membership 

 according to the rule. The present enrollment of the Society is 376. Six 

 candidates are before the Society for election and several applications are 

 under consideration by the Council. 



Distribution of Bulletin. — There have been received during the year (i 

 new subscriptions to the Bulletin, and 9 subscriptions bave been discon- 

 tinued, making the number of subscribers 115. 



The irregular distribution of the Bulletin during the past year lias 

 been as follows: Complete volumes sold to the public, 15; sold to Fel- 

 lows, 1; sent out to supply deficiencies, 1, and delinquents, 5; brochures 



1 Since the meeting the Secretary has received notice of the death of Frank A. Hill. 



