554 PEOCEEDINGS OF BOSTON MEETING. 



nominations for any or all offices. All such nominations reaching the Secretary at 

 least 20 days before the Annual Meeting shall be printed, together with the names 

 of the nominators, as special tickets. The regular and special tickets shall then be 

 mailed to the Fellows at least 15 days before the Annual Meeting. 



3. The Fellows will send their ballots to the Secretary in double envelopes, the 

 outer envelope bearing the voter's name. At the winter meeting of the Council 

 the Secretary will bring the returns of ballots before the Council for canvass, and 

 during the winter meeting of the Society the Council shall declare the result. 



4. In case a majority of all the ballots shall not have been cast for any candidate 

 for any office, the Society shall by ballot at such winter meeting proceed to make 

 an election for such office from the two candidates having the highest number of 

 votes. 



Chapter VIII changed to read as follows : 



CHAPTER VIII 



OF ORDER OF BUSINESS 



1. The Order of Business at Winter Meetings shall be as follows : 



(1) Call to order by the presiding officer. 



(2) Introductory ceremonies. 



(3) Report of the Council (including reports of the officers). 



(4) Appointment of the Auditing Committee. 



(5) Declaration of the vote for officers and election by the meeting in case of 



failure to elect by the Society through transmitted ballots. 



(6) Declaration of the vote for Fellows. 



(7) Deferred business. 



(8) New business. 



(9) Announcements. 



(10) Necrology. 



(11) Reading of scientific papers. 



2. At an adjourned session the order shall be resumed at the place reached on the 

 previous adjournment, but new business will be in order before the reading of 

 scientific papers. 



3. At the Summer Meeting the items of business under numbers (3), (4), (5), (10; 

 shall be omitted. • 



4. At any Special Meeting the Order of Business shall be numbers (1), (2), (3), 

 (9), followed by the special business for which the meeting was called. 



The report of the Committee on Photographs was presented by Mr 

 J. S. Diller. 



FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PHOTOGRAPHS 



Sixty-one views have been added during the year to the collection, which now 

 numbers 802. The donors are C. H. James, Henry G. Hanks, H. A. Riddle and 

 W. H. Hobbs, as noted in the following register. 



The collection was exhibited at the Boston meeting of the Society, and is always 

 accessible to members at the United States Geological Survey, Washington, D. C, 

 where it is in charge of J. S. Diller, the Secretarv of the committee. 



