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Session of Wednesday, December 28 



The general session of the Society, for the presentation of annual re- 

 ports and other business, scheduled for 2 p. m., Wednesday, December 28, 

 Avas postponed until Thursday, at 9.30 a. m., in order that the members 

 could attend the section of the Geological Society of America where the 

 stratigraphic and paleontologic papers forming Group B were being read. 



Wednesday evening the members participated in a smoker at College 

 Hall with the Geological Society of America and affiliated societies and 

 listened to the address of Prof. J. F. Kemp, its retiring President. 



Session of Thursday, December 29 



President Stanton called the thirteenth annual meeting of the Society 

 to order at 9.30 a. m., December 29, in the geological lecture-room of 

 Geology-Biology Building. The first matter of business was the report 

 of the Council. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



To the Paleontological Society, in thirteenth annual meeting assembled: 



Two meetings of the Council have been held during the year, one fol- 

 lowing the last annual meeting and the other immediately preceding the 

 present session, all other business having been transacted by correspond- 

 ence. The Council's administration of the Society's business for the 

 thirteenth year is presented in the following reports : 



Secretary's Report 



To tlie Council of the Paleontological Society: 



The proceedings of the twelfth annual meeting of the Paleontological 

 Society, held at Chicago, Illinois, December 28-30, 1920, are printed in 

 volume 32, number 1, pages 119-156, of the Bulletin of the Geological 

 Society of America, printed March 31, 1921, and distributed to the 

 members. 



The announcement that the thirteenth annual meeting of the Society 

 would be held at Amherst, Massachusetts, December 28-30, 1921, as the 

 guest of Amherst College, and the Council's proposed nominations for 

 officers for 1922 was issued February 22, 1921. 



Membership. — The Society has lost two of its Correspondents by death 

 during the year — Dr. Henry Woodward, of the British Museum and 

 editor of the Geological Magazine for over 50 years, and Dr. Alfred 



XIII— Bull. Geol. Soc. Aar, Vol. 33, 1921. 



