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tween this and the second meeting of the Council, just before the present 

 session, the business of the Society has been conducted by correspondence. 

 A resume of the administration for the eighth year of the Society is 

 given in the following reports of officers. 



Secretary's Report 



To the Council of the Paleontological Society : 



Meetings. — The proceedings of the seventh annual meeting of the 

 Society, held at Washington, D. C, December 29 and 30, 1915, have 

 been published in volume 27 of the Bulletin of the Geological Society of 

 America, pages 139 to 174. Besides this publication, the scientific papers 

 of the Society published in this Bulletin during the year are seven in 

 number and occupy a portion of number 2, all of number 3, and part of 

 number 4 of volume 27. Copies of the Proceedings and these seven 

 papers have been distributed to the members. An article by Prof. Joseph 

 Barrell on '^The influence of Silurian-Devonian climates on the rise of 

 air-breathing vertebrates,^' published in number 2, volume 27, of the 

 Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, was deemed of such impor- 

 tance to our own Society that copies were secured for all the members. 



The CounciFs proposed nomination for officers and announcement that 

 the eighth annual meeting of the Society would occur at Albany, New 

 York, at the invitation of President John H. Finley, of the University 

 of the State of New York, and Dr. John M. Clarke, Director of the New 

 York State Museum, were fonvarded to the members on March 20, 1916. 

 •Since that time the members have received all the announcements, pre- 

 liminary programs, etcetera, of the Geological Society of America, in 

 addition to those of our own Society. 



Membership. — During the year the Society has lost by death Dr. 

 Charles S. Prosser, Professor of Geology at*the Ohio State University, 

 who died September 11, 1916. 



The thirteen candidates elected at the seventh annual meeting have 

 been placed on the rolls, making the present enrollment 176. Five candi- 

 dates are under consideration for the present meeting. Three members 

 of the Society were elected to Fellowship in the Geological Society of 

 America at the election just concluded. 



Pacific Coast Section. — The seventh annual meeting of the Pacific 

 Coast Section of the Society was held at Stanford University April 29, 

 1916, with Dr. J. C. Merriam presiding and twenty-four members and 

 visitors present. Seventeen papers, dealing with both the Vertebrate and 

 Invertebrate Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the West Coast especially. 



