6 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOSTON MEETING 



The details of administration for the thirty-first year of the existence 

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



Secretary's Report 



To the Council of the Geological Society of America: 



The Secretary's annual report for the year ending November 30, 1919, 

 is as follows : 



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

 Society, held at Baltimore, Maryland, December 27-28, 1918, have been 

 recorded in volume 30, pages 1-142, of the Bulletin, and of the Paleonto- 

 logical Society, pages 143-188, of the same volume. 



Membership. — During the past year the Society has lost eight Fellows 

 by death — Joseph Barrell, George F. Becker, Charles H. Hitchcock, 

 Alexis A. Julien, Lawrence M. Lambe, Louis V. Pirsson, Gr. Sherbourne 

 Eogers, and J. C. da Costa Sena. The names of the nineteen Fellows 

 elected at the Baltimore meeting have been added to the printed list. 

 The present enrollment of the Society is 10 correspondents and 407 Fel- 

 lows. Eighteen candidates for Fellowship are before the Society for 

 election and several applications are under consideration by the Council. 



Distribution of the Bulletin. — There have been received during the 

 year six new subscriptions to the Bulletin. Three subscriptions have been 

 canceled, seventeen have not yet been renewed, and one has been rein- 

 stated. The number of volumes sent out to subscribers is now 123. Five 

 volumes are distributed gratis to the Library of Congress, the American 

 Museum of Natural History, and the government geological surveys of 

 the United States, Canada, and Mexico. During the year 43 volumes 

 were sent out to foreign exchanges. 



The irregular distribution of the Bulletin during the past year has been 

 as follows : Complete volumes sold to the public, 71 ; sold to Fellows, 1 ; 

 sent out to supply delinquents, 1, and deficiencies, 1; brochures sold to 

 Fellows, 10; sold to the public, 72; sent out- to supply delinquents, 54, 

 and deficiencies, 20. Index to volumes 1-10 sold to the public, 2; Index 

 11-20, 1. 



