4 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BALTIMORE MEETING 



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 Presidential address by Whitman Cross : Geology in the war and 



after 117 



Vice-Presidential address by George H. Perkins : Physiography of 



Vermont 117 



liegister of the Baltimore meeting, 1918 117 



OflScers, Correspondents, and Fellows of the Geological Society of America 119 

 Constitution, By-Laws, and Publication Rules of the Society 131 



Session of Friday, December 27, 1918 



The Thirty-first Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America 

 was held in the rooms of the Department of Geology, Johns Hopkins 

 University, Baltimore, Maryland, on Friday and Saturday, December 27 

 and 28, 1918, under the presidency of Doctor Whitman Cross, of the 

 United States Geological Survey. 



The first general session of the Society was called to order by President 

 Cross at 9.40 o'clock a. m., and the Secretary presented, in printed form, 

 the report of the Council for the year ending ISTovember 30, 1918, as 

 follows : 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



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

 assembled: 



The regular annual meeting of the Council was held at St. Louis, Mo., 

 in connection with the meeting of the Society, December 27-29, 1917. 

 A special meeting was held at Washington, D. C, February 28, 1918. 



The details of administration for the thirtieth 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: 



The Secretary's annual report for the year ending November 30, 1918, 

 is as follows : 



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

 Society, held at St. Louis, Mo., December 27-29, 1917, have been recorded 

 in volume 29, pages 1-106, of the Bulletin, and of the Paleontological 

 Society, pages 119-154, of the same volume. 



Membership. — During the past year the Society has lost six Fellows by 

 death— Charles E. Eastman, G. K. Gilbert, J. D. Irving, P. H. Mell, 



