COUNCIL REPORT 123 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



To the Paleontological Society, in ninth annual meeting assembled: 



This year's Council has held two regular meetings for the transaction 

 of the Society's business — one at the adjournment of the meeting at Al- 

 bany, December 29, and the second just before the present session. As 

 usual, most of the business has been conducted by correspondence. The 

 following reports of officers give a resume of the administration for the 

 ninth year of the Society : 



Secretary's Report 



To the Council of the Paleontological Society: 



Meetings.^ — The proceedings of the eighth annual meeting of the So- 

 ciety, held at Albany, New York, December 27-29, 1916, have been 

 printed in volume 28, pages 189-234, of the Bulletin of the Geological 

 Society of America, published on March 31, 1917. On account of the 

 great delay in publication due to war conditions, only two numbers of 

 the four published annually as the Bulletin of the Geological Society of 

 America have been issued up to the present date, and the proceedings is 

 the only one of our Society's publications that has so far been printed. 

 Number four of this Bulletin, now in press, contains three articles by 

 members of our Society. However, a second publication — an extensive 

 paper by Doctor Grabau, published at the end of 1916 — was distributed 

 during the present year, so that while the number of papers has been 

 smaller the number of printed pages has been about as usual. 



The announcement that the ninth annual meeting of the Society would 

 occur at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, beginning December 31, 1917, at the 

 invitation of the Carnegie Museum, through the Director, Doctor Wil- 

 liam J. Holland,- was forwarded to the members on March 26, 1917, with 

 the Council's proposed nominations for officers. 



At the meeting of the Council just concluded, it was voted that in view 

 of the increased membership and business of the Society, the Secretary 

 was empowered to expend not more than $25 per year for necessary 

 clerical assistance. 



Membership. — During the year the Society has lost by death Prof. 

 Henry M. Seely, who died May -1, 1917, and Prof. William Bullock Clark, 

 who died early in July, 1917. Professor Seely was one of our oldest 

 members and had been Professor of Natural History at Middlebury Col- 

 lege, Middlebury, Vermont, since 1861. Plis best known geologic work 

 was on the stratigraphy and iialeontology of the Beekmantown and Cbazv 



