88 PROCEEDINGS OF THE PITTSBURGH MEETING 



In October the Council voted that Prof. J. C. Merriam be authorized 

 to organize a Pacific Coast section of the Paleontological Society, in har- 

 mony with the constitution of that Society, and that it be known as the 

 Cordilleran Section of the Paleontological Society. 



During the 3^ear we have lost by death three members — Prof. E. P. 

 Whitfield, Prof. D. P. Penhallow, and Mr. Eobert H. Gordon. 



All of the nominations for members were approved by the Council and 

 offered for election prior to the annual meeting, December 28, 1910. 

 The list is given on another page. 



The Council nominated for election as correspondents the following: 

 Prof. Dr. A. G. ^^athorst, Eoyal Natural History Museum, Stockholm, 

 Sweden; Prof. Dr. E. Koken, Tiibingen, Germany; Mr. S. S. Buckman, 

 Westfield, Thame, England, and Prof. Charles Deperet, Lyon (Ehone), 

 France. 



Five members of the Society — Prof. Bashford Dean, Dr. W. J. Hol- 

 land, Mr. Louis Hussakof, Mr. 0. A. Peterson, and Mr. G. E. Wieland — 

 were proposed by the Council of the Paleontological Society as candidates 

 for election to Fellowship in the Geological Society of America. Two 

 other members — Mr. Barnum Brown and Prof. H. W. Shimer — would 

 have been nominated in the same way had their names not been offered 

 by individual Fellows of the two societies. 



Acting upon the suggestion that it would be well if each annual meet- 

 ing had the impress of that branch of paleontologic study pursued by the 

 President, Professor Schuchert proposed a conference on the Criteria in 

 Paleozoic Paleogeography for the Pittsburgh meeting, to occupy one-half 

 day. The Council agreed to this plan, and the program printed on a 

 following page was arranged. 



At the regular annual meeting of the Council held in the Schenley 

 Hotel, December 27, 1910, the following matters of business were con- 

 sidered : 



It was voted that hereafter the Secretary of the Society shall attend to 

 and be responsible for all the printing save the papers published for the 

 Society by the Geological Society of America. It was also voted that all 

 of the papers hereafter published by the Paleontological Society be sent 

 to all of its members. It was the sense of the Council that the dues of 

 the members received into the Society through amalgamation with the 

 Society of American Vertebrate Paleontologists should begin with the 

 coming year. 



Eespectfully submitted, E. S. Bassler, Secretary. 



DrcEMBER 20, 1910. 



