2 PROCEEDINGS OF BROOKLYN MEETING. 



ELECTION OF FELLOWS 



The Secretary announced the result of the balloting for Fellows, as 

 canvassed by the Council, as follows : 



Fellows Elected 



Miss Florence Bascom, A. M., B. S., Ph. D., CoUimbus, Ohio. Instructor in Geol- 

 ogy, Petrography and Mineralogy in the Ohio State University. 



Richard Charles Hills, Denver, Colorado. Mining Engineer. 



Elpric Drew Ingall, Geological Survey Department, Ottawa, Canada. Mining 

 Engineer. In charge of Division of Mineral Statistics and Mines. 



Robert Tracy Jackson, S. B., S. D., '^3 Gloucester street, Boston. Instructor in 

 Paleontology, Harvard University. 



David F. Lincoln, M. D., Geneva, New York. 



Charles Joseph Norwood, Frankfort, Kentucky. State Geologist and State Mine 

 Inspector of Kentucky. 



Charles Palache, B. S., Ph. D., Berkeley, California. Fellow in Geology in Uni- 

 versity of California. 



Louis VATiENTiNE Pirsson, Ph. B., New Plaven, Connecticut. Instructor in Geol- 

 ogy and Petrography in Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University. 



Henry Lloyd Smyth, A. B., Cambridge, Massachusetts. Instructor in Mining 

 Geology and Geological Surveying in Harvard University. 



Lewis Gardner Westgate, 1303 Chicago avenue, Evanston, Illinois. 



"William Smith Yeates, A. B., A. M,, Atlanta, Georgia. State Geologist of Georgia. 



A communication from the Royal Society of London was read by the 

 President, which referred to cooperation and aid in the matter of pub- 

 lishing the " Catalogue of Periodical Scientific Literature." It was voted, 

 after some discussion and amendments, to appoint a committee of three, 

 the acting President as chairman, to consider the matter of the commu- 

 nication and report at the winter meeting. The committee as named 

 consists of N. S. Shaler, H. S. Williams and W J McGee. 



The Secretary announced that the Council desired to apply the rule 

 regarding the presentation of papers whose authors were absent that was 

 applied at the preceding winter meeting. The rule is as follows: 



"The Council rules that papers whose authors are not present when the title is 

 called shall go to the end of the program unless the Society by special vote in each 

 case decides otherwise." 



The Secretary stated that the titles in the printed program had been 

 arranged according to the classification given in the last report of the 

 Council (volume 5, page 613), and that it was proposed to adhere to this 

 order in the programs of future meetings ; also to place at the head of 

 the list the titles in that department of geology which had been at the 

 foot of the list the preceding meeting, thus bringing all the several groups 



