648 PROCEEDINGS OP BOSTON MEETING. 



The Bulletin. 



5. The Society shall pubhsh a serial record of its work entitled " Bulletin of the 

 Geological Society of America." 



6. The Bulletin shall be published, for immediate distribution, in covered parts 

 or brochures, consecutively paged for each volume. The brochures shall be desig- 

 nated by volume numbers and limiting pages, and each shall bear a special title 

 setting forth the contents and authorship, the seal and imprint of the Society and 

 the date of publication (Rules, Sec. 27). The Bulletin shall also be published in 

 complete volumes, and each volume shall comprise the issue of a calendar year. 



7. The brochures shall be classed as memoir brochures and brochures of pro- 

 ceedings. 



8. Each memoir brochure shall consist normally of a single memoir or article, 

 either accompanied by discussion or not ; it may consist exceptionally of two or 

 more memoirs where the subject-matter is closely related. 



9. The proceedings of the annual, summer and special meetings of the Society, 

 prepared by the Secretary (including short papers, abstracts, etc. ), shall be pub- 

 lished as separate brochures as soon as may be after these meetings. 



10. The proceedings of the annual meeting shall form the closing portion of the 

 volume for the year. 



11. The brochure containing the proceedings of the annual meeting shall contain 

 also an index to the volume, paged consecutively with the body of the volume ; 

 and it shall be accompanied by a volume title-page and lists of contents and illus- 

 trations, together with lists of the publications of the Society and such other mat- 

 ter as may be deemed necessary by the Publication Committee, all arranged under 

 a separate Roman pagination. 



• Matter of the Bulletin. 



12. The matter published in the Bulletin shall comprise (1) communications pre- 

 sented at meetings by title or otherwise ; (2) communications or memoirs not pre- 

 sented before the Society ; (3) abstracts of papers read before the Society, prepared 

 or revised for publication by authors : (4) reports of discussions made before the 

 Society, prepared or revised for publication by authors ; (5) proceedings of the 

 meetings of the Society prepared by the Secretary ; (6) plates, maps and other illus- 

 trations necessary for the proper understanding of communications ; (7) lists of 

 Officers and Fellows, Constitution, By-laws, resolutions of permanent character, 

 rules relating to procedure, to publication and to other matters; etc. ; and (8) in- 

 dices, title-pages and lists of contents for each volume. 



13. Communications making .sixteen or more printed pages of text, including 

 figures, shall be published as memoir-brochures. Communications making less than 

 sixteen printed pages may be included in the proceedings brochures or published 

 as memoir brochures, at the option of the individual authors ; but in the latter 



