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to a scattered ineml)crsliip, it lias been i)ossil)le thus far, by careful man- 

 agement and economy, to carry on tlie publication without al)ridgment. 

 It lias, however, been necessary to ni;iki> a choice from tlic material offered 

 for i)ublication, and it will prol)ably l)e necessary to make even more 

 strict selection in the future. To tlie ollicers uj^on whom has fallen the 

 burden of administration the success of the Society has been a great 

 satisfaction. 



During the past year the Council lias held two well attended meetings, 

 in conjunction with the J>oston and Brooklyn meetings of the Society, 

 each consisting of several sessions. The details of the administration 

 are shown in the following reports of the ollicers : 



Secretary's Report 



To the Council of the Geological Society of America : 



^[embership. — For the second time the Society lias lost an officer by 

 death. Second Vice-President George IT. Williams died on July 12. 

 Mr Amos Bowman died June IS. 



The last printed roll of membership bears the names of 220 living and 

 nine deceased Fellows. At the Brooklyn meeting eleven persons were 

 elected, and all have qualified, as follows : Miss Florence Basconi, R. C. 

 Hills, E. D. Ingall, R. T. Jackson, D. F. Lincoln, C. J. Norwood, C. Pa- 

 lache, L. V. Pirsson, H. L. Smyth, L. G. Westgate, W. S. Yeates. Five 

 Fellows have been dropped from the roll for non-j)ayment of dues and 

 seven others are now so in arrears that they are liable to be dropped. 

 Five candidates for membership are now before the Society. 



The Fellowship of the Society is at this date distributed over the con- 

 tinent as follows : District of Columbia, 34; New York, 27 ; Canada, 23; 

 Pennsylvania, 17 ; Massachusetts, 17 ; California, 12; Ohio, 12; Illinois, 

 10; Connecticut. 7 ; Iowa. 7 ; Minnesota, G; Michigan, 5; New Jersey, 

 5; Kentucky, 4; Missouri, 4 ; Alal)ania, Colorado, Kansas, Texas, Vir- 

 ginia, Wisconsin, 3 each; Maryland, South Dakota, Vermont, West 

 Virginia, 2 each ; Arizona, Georgia. Idaho, Indiana, ^^aine, Mississipi)i, 

 North Carolina, New llam})shire, Rhode Island, Tennessee, 1 each, and 

 1 each in Brazil, Burma and Mexico. Total, 229. 



Distrihtition of Bull rt in. — The Secretary calls attention to the matter 

 under this liead in his report (jf last year (volume o, ])age blO), which 

 nee<l not be repeated here, except to state that the eclition of volume 1 

 was only ofK) copij's, and that the first two volumes wen; distributed to 

 the Fellows direct fnjin the printers. A comparison of the following re- 

 port with la.st year's report will give the details for the i)ast year: 



