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report of the council 



To the Geological Society of America, in twenty-sixth annual meeting- 

 assembled: 



The regular annual meeting of the Council was held at New Haven, 

 Conn., in connection with the meeting of the Society, December 28 to 31, 

 1912. 



The details of administration for the twenty-fifth 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: 



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

 Society held at New Haven, Conn., December 28-31, 1912, have been 

 recorded in volume 24, pages 1-90; of the Cordilleran Section, pages 

 91-98, and of the Paleontological Society, pages 99-132, of the Bulletin. 



Membership. — During the past year the Society has lost one Fellow by 

 death, William M. Fontaine ; and one Correspondent, Hermann Credner. 

 Two Fellows have been dropped for non-payment of dues. The names of 

 seventeen out of nineteen Fellows elected at the Washington meeting have 

 been added to the list, two of them having failed to qualify. The present 

 enrollment of the Society is 356. Twelve candidates for fellowship are 

 before the Society for election and several applications are under con- 

 sideration by the Council. 



Distribution of Bulletin. — There have been received during the year 10 

 new subscriptions to the Bulletin, 5 subscriptions have been discontinued, 

 making the number of subscribers 114. 



The irregular distribution of the Bulletin during the past year has 

 been as follows : Complete volumes sold to the public, 58 ; sold to Fel- 

 lows, 1 ; sent out to supply deficiencies, 2, and delinquents, 2 ; brochures 

 sent out to supply deficiencies, 6, and delinquents, 134 ; sold to Fellows, 

 14 ; sold to the public, 28. 



Bulletin Sales. — The receipts from subscriptions to and sales of the 

 Bulletin during the past year are shown in the following table : 



