56 proceedings of the pittsburgh meeting 



Session of Wednesday, December 28 



The Society was called to order at 10.15 o'clock a. m. by President 

 Hague. 



On motion, the printed report of the Council was taken from the table 

 and adopted. The report was as follows : 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



To the Geological Society of America, in Twenty-third Annual Meeting 



assembled: 



The regular annual meeting of the Council was held at Boston and 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts, in connection with the meeting of the Society, 

 December 28 to 31, 1909. An adjourned meeting was held in New York 

 city on February 5, 1910, and some business has been transacted by cor- 

 respondence. 



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

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



Seceetaey's Repoet 



To the Council of the Geological Society of America: 



Meetings. — The proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society held 

 at Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 28 to 31, 1909, have 

 been recorded in volume 21, pages 1-41, of the Bulletin. 



Memhership. — During the past year, the Society has lost eight Fellows 

 by death: William Phipps Blake, Franklin E. Carpenter, J. C. K. La- 

 flamme, William H. N'iles, David Pearce Penhallow, William G. Tight. 

 T. C. Weston, and Robert Parr Whitfield. Two resignations have become 

 effective. The names of the twenty-four Fellows elected at the Boston- 

 Cambridge meeting have been added to the list, all of them having com- 

 pleted their membership according to rule. The present enrollment of 

 the Society is 319. Eight candidates are before the Society for election, 

 and several applications are under consideration by Council. 



Distribution of Bulletin. — In accordance with the announcement made 

 at the last meeting of the Society, the form of publication of the Bulletin 

 was changed to a quarterly issue, beginning with volume 21, and 516 

 pages have been distributed in the first three parts. Part 4 of the volume, 

 comprising several complete papers, abstracts, discussions, and index, is 

 in the hands of the printer and should be issued by the end of January. 



There have been received during the year six new subscriptions to the 

 Bulletin, making the number of subscribers 100. There has been no 

 change in the exchange list. The names of the seven Correspondents 



