134 PROCEEDINGS OF THE PALEOXTOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Edward L. Troxell. Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. 



Claude W. Unger. Pottsville, Pa. 



Francis W. Van Tuye. Department of Paleontology, Columbia University, New 



York City. 

 Clarets'ce a. Waring. Box 162. Mayfield, Cal. 



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The following matters of business, which had been considered previ- 

 ously by the Council, were now on request of the chairman placed before 

 the Society by the Secretary : 



On the nomination of John M. Clarke the Council recommended to the 

 Society that Dr. Henry Woodward, editor of the Geological Magazine, be 

 elected an honorary Fellow of the Society in recognition of his great 

 services rendered to paleontologic science. It was then voted that the 

 Secretary ca^t the ballot of the Society for Doctor Woodward's election. 



The names of William L. Bryant, Buffalo Society of Xatural History, 

 Buffalo, Xew York; Thomas C. Brown, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, 

 Pennsylvania, and Alexander Petrunkevitch, Yale University, Xew 

 Haven, Connecticut, were not considered by the Council for membership 

 until too late to be placed on the printed ballot. The Council, believing 

 that it would be unjust to cause them to wait another year before elec- 

 tion, recommended that they be elected to membership by the members 

 present. On motion, the election of each was made unanimous. 



The Society had been requested during the year to appoint a repre- 

 sentative on the Supervisory Board of the American Year Book. The 

 Council considered this matter and recommended that favorable action 

 be taken. On motion, Charles R. Eastman, editor of the Society, was 

 elected as our representative. 



Methods of increasing the value of the Proceedings of the Society to 

 all of the members and of making them of more general interest were 

 considered by the Council, and it was recommended that abstracts of the 

 important paleontological articles of each year be prepared and submitted 

 to the Society at the yearly meetings for discussion and possible publica- 

 tion. The members voted approval of this action, and the appointment 

 of a committee to prepare such abstracts was left to the Council. 



The proposition that a chapter dealing with the Paleontolog}' of Man 

 be organized in the Society, suggested to the Council during the year, 

 was next submitted to the members. After discussion and an unseconded 

 motion that the title of the proposed chapter be changed so as to be more 

 comprehensive, it was voted to refer the entire subject back to the Council 

 for report next year. 



