b PROCEEDINGS OF THE AXX ARBOR MEETING 



who called attention to the fact that this was early a center of geological 

 activity under the influence of Alexander Winchell, the real father of 

 the Geological Society of America and one of its earliest Presidents, as 

 well as under his successor, Israel C. Russell, who also became a Presi- 

 dent of this Society. He pointed out that Ann Arbor, both because of 

 its former great influence and also because of its continued prominence 

 to the present day as an active center of geological teaching and investi- 

 gation, is a ver}^ appropriate place for this annual meeting of the Geolog- 

 ical Society and its affiliated societies, covering the geologic, mineralogic, 

 paleontologic, geographic, and physiographic fields of investigation. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



The report of the Council was presented by Secretary Hovey, as fol- 

 lows : 



To the Geological Society of America, in thirty-fifth annual meeting 

 assembled : 



The regular annual meeting of the Council was held at Amherst, 

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

 28-30, 1921. A special meeting was held in Xew York on October 15, 

 1922. 



The details of administration for the thirty-fourth year of the exist- 

 ence 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 Xovember 30, 1922, 

 is as follows : 



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

 Society, held at Amherst, Massachusetts, December 28-30, 1921, have 

 been recorded in volume 33, pages 1-186, of the Bulletin. Those of the 

 Cordilleran Section, pages 187-190; of the Paleontological Society, pages 

 191-222; of the Society of Economic Geologists, pages 223-226; of the 

 Mineralogical Society of America, pages 227-230, of the same volume. 



Membership. — During the last year the Society has lost five Fellows 

 by death — John C. Branner, R. D. Salisbury, James E. Todd, Levi 

 Holbrook, and G. H. Cox. The names of the twenty-one Fellows elected 

 at the Amherst meeting who qualified have been added to the printed 

 list. Six Fellows have resigned or been dropped for non-payment of 



