HEPOET OP COMMITTEE ON PPIOTOGRAPHS 463 



same time in the city at the American Museum of Natural History, with 

 an address by Professor H. F. Osborn. 



Session of Thursday, December 29 



The Society was called to order at 10 o'clock a m, President Stevenson 

 in the chair. 



Dr J. C. Smock reported that the Auditing Committee had found the 

 accounts of the Treasurer correct, and the Society adopted the report. 



The report of the Council was taken from the table and adopted with- 

 out debate. 



Following is the report of the Photograph Committee : * 



NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PHOTOGRAPHS 



The committee report the addition of 320 views, bringing the full 

 number in the collection up to 1,878. The donors are as below : 



(1) Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania 144 



(2) U. S. Geological Survey 106 



(3) U. S. National Museum (George P. Merrill) 1 



(4) Professor J. F. Kemp 7 



(5) Geological Survey of Iowa 58 



(6) Mr T. C. Hopkins 4 



The 144 views presented by the Second Geological Survey are prints 

 made from selected negatives of the entire series presented, as noted in 

 the Eighth Annual Report of your committee. 



The committee asks a continuation of the appropriation of the sum 

 of $15 for expenses during 1899. 



Respectfully submitted. George P. Merrill, 



Chair yuan. 

 Washington, December, 1898 



REGISTER OF PHOTOGRAPUS RECEIVED IN 1898 



One hundred and forty-four {144) views {ivith negatives) presented by Mr E. V. D'ln- 

 villiers for the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania 



Size, 5 by 7 inches. For prints, address Chairman Committee on Photographs 



1559. Pseudopecopteris macilenta {L. and H.) IjX. Upper Pottsville series. Wash- 

 ington county, Arkansas. Lepidocystis (Polysporia) sallsburyi Lx. Potts- 

 ville series. Days gap, Alabama. 



* By a misunderstanding or inadvertence it was supposed that this report had not been received, 

 and consequently it was not presented to the meeting. It was presented at the Washington meet- 

 ing December 28, 1899, and adopted, and is here printed in its proper place. 



