REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 609 



The following paper was read by title : 



PALEOZOIC INTRA-FORMATIONAL CONGLOMERATES 

 BY CHARLES D. WALCOTT 



This paper is prmted as pages 191-198 of this volume. 



The Society then adjourned for the day. In the evening the annual 

 dinner was served at the Thorndike hotel. Brief speeches were made 

 by the greater number of Fellows in attendance at the meeting. 



Session of Friday, December 29 



The Society was called to order at 10 o'clock a m in the hall of the 

 Boston Society of Natural Histor}^, President DaAvson in the chair. 



The Secretary read the following : 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



To the Geological Society of America, 



in Sixth Annual Meeting assembled : 



During the past year the Council has held three meetings; one at 

 Ottawa in conjunction with the winter meeting of the Society, at which 

 four sessions were held, but not a quorum of the Council present. In 

 April a meeting was held in Washington, with the President and a quo- 

 rum present; and the summer meeting, with three sessions, was held in 

 August in Madison, Wisconsin. 



The work of administration of the Society will be shown in the follow- 

 ing reports of the officers : 



Secretary's Report 



2o the Council of the Geological Society of America: 



A large part of the work of the Secretary becomes evident to the Fel- 

 lowship in the regular course of administration through receipt of printed 

 matter. The correspondence is large, about 500 letters having been 

 written during the year. It has become necessary to employ a stenog- 

 rapher regularly for part of each day. 



Membership. — During the past year the Society has fortunately lost no 

 Fellows by death. The latest printed roll of membership bears the 

 names of 233 living and nine deceased Fellows. At the Madison meet- 

 ing five men were elected and all have qualified, as follows: Sandford 

 Fleming, C. H. Gordon, C. A. Hollick, T. C. Weston, A. A. Wright. By 

 application of the rules the names of eleven Fellows may be dropped 



