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necticTit, when nominations for officers for the following year were sug- 

 gested, new nominations for members, and further business were consid- 

 ered. Since this meeting all business of the Society has been arranged, 

 as heretofore, by correspondence. Details of administration for the 

 Society's fifth year are presented in the following reports of officers : 



Secretary's Report 



To the Council of the Paleontological Society: 



Meetings. — The proceedings of the fourth annual meeting of the So- 

 ciety, held at New Haven, Connecticut, December 30 and 31, 1913, have 

 been published in volume 24 of the Bulletin of the Geological Society of 

 America, pages 99 to 132, and distributed to the members. The scientific 

 papers of the Paleontological Society printed during the year by the 

 Geological Society of America and distributed to the members comprise 

 three papers on vertebrate paleontology and two on invertebrate paleon- 

 tology and stratigraphy. Three other papers delivered at the fourth an- 

 nual meeting have been printed or are in press in other publications. 

 Therefore, of 42 papers presented at the Yale meeting and at the Pacific 

 Coast Section only nine have been published. It is, therefore, believed 

 advisable to continue the practice commenced last year of printing in the 

 annual proceedings rather full abstracts of all papers. 



The Council's proposed nominations for officers and announcement that 

 the fifth annual meeting of the Society would occur at Princeton, New 

 Jersey, at the invitation of the Princeton University members, were for- 

 warded to the members on March 15, 1913. 



Membership. — During the year the Society has lost by death one of its 

 members. Prof. William M. Fontaine, who was well known for his long 

 services as Professor of Geology at the University of Virginia, and for his 

 paleobotanical researches on the Permian and Mesozoic rocks of eastern 

 North America. A sketch of his life has been presented before the Geo- 

 logical Society and will be published as a part of their proceedings. 



Two resignations have occurred during the year ; three members never 

 perfected their membership and five have been dropped for non-payment 

 of dues. The 17 candidates elected at the fourth annual meeting have 

 been placed on the rolls, making the present enrollment 161. 



At this year's election for Fellows of the Geological Society of America, 

 members Miss Mignon Talbot and Messrs. Gordon, Hartnagel, Eeeds, 

 and Twenhofel of the Paleontological Society were elected to Fellowship. 



Pacific Coast Section. — The Secretary of the Pacific Coast Section of 

 the Society reports that their fourth annual meeting was held April 8, 



