REPORTS OF COMMITTEES 49 



EEPOKT OF COMMITTEE ON PHOTOGRAPHS 



The only item to report in connection with the collection of photo- 

 graphs is that it has been moved with me from the Bureau of Mines to 

 my oJBRce in the United States Geological Survey. No additions have 

 been offered during the year, but several persons have looked over the 

 collection to find material for illustrating lectures or memoirs. 



N. H. Darton, 



Committee. 



The report was accepted and the committee was continued. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON GEOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE 



The secretary of the committee has received no requests for informa- 

 tion or decision, and no action regarding geologic nomenclature has been 

 taken by the committee during the past year. 



Arthur Keith^ 



Secretary. 



The report was" accepted and the committee was continued. 



REPORT OF AUDITING COMMITTEE 



The undersigned have examined the vouchers, checks, accounts, and 

 bank book of the Treasurer of the Society and find them correct. 



The Securities of the Society, now in a safe-deposit vault in Baltimore, 

 will be examined later by one or more members of the Committee.^ 

 Eespectfully submitted. 



Edward B. Mathev^^s, 



IT. S. Grant, 



T. Wayland Vaughan, 



Committee, 

 The report was accepted. 



AMENDMENT TO THE BY-LAV7S 



In accordance with the notice which had been sent out by the Secretary, 

 the following amendment to By-Laws was submitted : 



Chapter 1, paragraph 1, add the sentence : "A Fellow in good standing, 

 however, who has paid annual dues for not less than fifteen (15) years 



» Under date of February 10, 1914, Edward B, Mathews reports that, acting as a 

 member of the Auditing Committee of the Society, he examined the Society's securities 

 in the hands of the Treasurer and found them to be as listed in the Treasurer's report 

 under date of December 1, 1913. . 



