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secretary's report / 



logical Society, pages 119-156; of the Society of Economic Geologists, 

 pages 157-162; of the Mineralogical Society, pages 163-170, of the same 

 volume. 



Membership. — During the past year the Society has lost five Fellows 

 by death — G. Frederick Wright, H. P. Gushing, M. E. Wadsworth, 

 Orestes H. St. John, and J. W. Spencer. The names of the thirty-four 

 Fellows elected at the Chicago meeting who qualified have been added to 

 the printed list. The present enrollment of the Society is 447. Twenty- 

 two candidates for Fellowship and one for Correspondentship are before 

 the Society for election and several applications are under consideration 

 by the Council. 



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

 year twelve new subscriptions to the Bulletin ; twenty-one have not yet 

 been renewed. The number of volumes sent out to subscribers is now 139. 

 Five volumes are 'distributed gratis to the Library of Congress, the 

 American Museum of Natural History, and the government 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 public, 48 ; complete volumes 

 sold to Fellows, 2 ; sent out to supply deficiencies, 3 ; sent out to supply 

 delinquents, 7; brochures sold to Fellows, 23; sold to public, 185; sent 

 out to supply delinquents, public, 105; sent out to supply deficiencies, 

 public, 22 ; sent out to supply delinquents, Fellows, 35 ; sent out to supply 

 deficiencies, Fellow, 1. Index to volumes 1-10 sold to the public, 3; 

 Index 11-20, 2; Index 21-30, 100. Eestoration of exchanges interrupted 

 by the war: volumes, 120; brochures, 8. 



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

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



