SECRETARY S REPORT 



411 



During the past year the Council has held only one meeting, at Mon- 

 treal, no quorum being present at Boston. The necessary business 

 since the annual meeting has been transacted by correspondence. 



The following reports of the officers contain all further matters of in- 

 terest to the Society at large : 



Secretary's Repokt. 



To the Council of the Geological Society of America : 



Meetings. — The record of the Tenth Annual Meeting, held at Montreal 

 December, 1897, is before the Society in print. The proceedings of the 

 Tenth Summer Meeting are in type and will soon be distributed. like 

 the 1896 Summer Meeting, the Boston meeting occupied one day of the 

 time of Section E, American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 This arrangement seems mutually satisfactory. 



A list of the meetings of the Society held during the ten ,years is ap- 

 pended, with the number of Fellows and Fellows-elect in attendance, 

 and the number of titles of papers jjresented (not including reports nor 

 memorials). 



1888 

 1889 

 1890 

 1891 

 1892 

 1893 

 1894 

 1895 

 1896 

 1897 

 1898 



Summer meetings. 



1. Toronto 



2. Indianapolis . 



3. AVashington. . 



4. Rochester. . . . 



5. Madison , 



6. Brooklyn 



7. Springfield. . . 



8. Buffalo 



9. Detroit 



10. Boston 



Papers. 



11 

 10 

 34 

 15 

 20 

 29 

 IS 

 14 

 12 

 1» 



Attend- 

 ance. 



53 

 22 

 83 

 32 

 38 

 34 

 31 

 43 

 21 

 46 



(?) 



Winter meetings. 



1. Ithaca 



2. New York .. 



3. Washington . 



4. Columbus. . . 



5. Ottawa 



6. Boston 



7. Baltimore . . 



8. Philadelphia. 



9. Washington. 



10. Montreal.. . 



11. New York.. . 



Papers. 



6b 

 55 



27 

 37 

 59 

 48 

 26 

 50 



Attend- 

 ance. 



13 

 60 

 66 

 23 

 29 

 51 

 64 

 61 

 79 

 31 



Membership. — Since the last report. 1897, three Fellows have resigned 

 and five have been dropped from the roll for non-payment of dues. 

 Four Fellows elected at Montreal, added to the roll, made the last 

 printed list (July, 1898) contain 238 names. The death of James Hall 

 transfers one name to the list of deceased Fellows, leaving the present 

 membership 237. Two resignations are pending and eight Fellows are 

 delinquent in dues. Eleven persons are now candidates for election at 

 the approaching meeting. 



The Society began with 112 " Original " Fellows. The number of Fel- 

 lows on the roll at the time of the annual meetings during the ten years 



