COUNCIL REPORT 



The details of administration for the twenty-ninth 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: 



Secretaryship. — During the absence of the Secretary the duties of the 

 office were efficiently discharged by Charles P. Berkey, Secretary 'pro 

 tempore. The Secretary resumed office on September 1. 



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

 ciety, held at Albany, N. Y., December 27-29, 1916, have been recorded 

 on pages 1-176, and of the Paleontological Society on pages 189-234, vol- 

 ume 28, of the Bulletin. 



Members]) ip. — During the past year the Society has lost eight Fellows 

 by death — Robert Bell, Amos P. Brown, D. D.' Cairnes, William Bullock 

 Clark, Charles W. Drysdale, Arnold Hague, Robert H. Loughridge, and 

 H. M. Seely/ The names of the twenty-eight Fellows who have com- 

 pleted their membership since their election at the Albany meeting have 

 been added to the list. The present enrollment of the Society is : Corre- 

 spondents, 10; Fellows, 395; total, 405. Eighteen candidates for Fellow- 

 ship are before the Society for election and several applications are under 

 consideration by the Council. 



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

 3 new subscriptions to the Bulletin. The number of volumes sent out to 

 subscribers is now 128. Five volumes are distributed gratis to the Library 

 of Congress, the American Museum of Natural History, and the govern- 

 ment geological surveys of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. 



The irregular distribution of the Bulletin during the past year has 

 been as follows : Complete volumes sold to the public, 61 ; sent out to 

 supply delinquents, 6 ; brochures sold to Fellows, 10 ; sold to the public, 

 55; sent out to supply deficiencies, 17, and delinquents, 68. Index to 

 volumes 1-10 sold to the public, 4; to volumes 11-20 sold to the public, 3. 



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

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



1 Since the closing of the fiscal year to which this ropoi-t refers, one Fellow, Albert II, 

 Purdue, has died. 



