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been resubmitted to the Society, and that the transmitted ballots, can- 

 vassed by the Council, showed an affirmative vote of three-fourths of the 

 total membership. The following amendments to the Constitution were 

 therefore adopted : 



Article III, section 1, amended by omitting the closing words of the 

 section, "and resident in North America," so that the section reads: 

 " 1. Fellows shall be persons who are engaged in geological work or in 

 teaching geology." 



Article IV, section 8, amended by inserting after the word " Editor " 

 the words " and Treasurer," so that the paragraph reads : " The Secretary, 

 Editor and Treasurer shall be eligible to reelection without limitation." 



AMENDMENTS TO THE BY-LAWS 



The proposed change in the By-Laws recommended by the Council 

 at the Brooklyn meeting and announced in the Secretary's circular of 

 September 6, 1894, was declared in order under unfinished business, and 

 after explanations by the Secretary and Treasurer the amendment was 

 unanimously voted as follows : 



Chapter VII, section 1, amended by omitting the words, " of moneys 

 paid by the general public for publications of the Societ,y," so that the 

 section reads : " 1. The Publication Fund shall consist of donations made 

 in aid of publication, and of the sums paid in commutation of dues, 

 according to the By-Laws, chapter I, clause 2." 



Professor W. B. Clark, representing the Local Committee of Entertain- 

 ment, made announcement concerning the signing of railroad certificates 

 for reduced rates, and also extended to the Fellows in behalf of the 

 University Club the hospitality of the Club. 



Under the heading in the program of" Necrology "^the following memo- 

 rials of deceased Fellows were read : 



MEMORIAL OF GEORGE HUNTINGTON WILLIAMS 

 BY WILLIAM B, CLARK 



Although the world always mourns the departure of a true man, the 

 sense of loss is keener when the life which is taken has not reached its 

 full fruition ; when the work done indicates still greater achievements, 

 could the full period of activity have been filled out. Such must ever 

 be the feelings of those who mourn the loss of Professor George H. Wil- 

 liams, who, in the full vigor of manhood, passed away on July 12, at 

 the home of his father, in Utica, New York, a victim to the ravages of a 

 fever contracted while earnestly pursuing his geological investigations in 

 the Piedmont area of Maryland — a region which he has made classic for 

 all subsequent students of American petrography. 



