REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 6 



Secretary's Report 



To the Council of the Geological Society of America: 



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

 Society held at Washington, D. C, December 27 to 30, 1911, have been 

 recorded in volume 23, pages 1-68; of the Cordilleran Section, pages 

 69-76, and of the Paleontological Society, pages 77-92, of the Bulletin. 



Membership. — During the past year the Society has lost five Fellows 

 by death: Ernest E. Buckley, Clarence E. Dutton, Thomas M. Jackson, 

 W J McGee and Ealph S. Tarr; and one Correspondent, Ferdinand 

 Zirkel. One resignation has become effective, and one Fellow has been 

 dropped for non-payment of dues. The names of the twenty-nine Fel- 

 lows elected at the Washington meeting have been added to the list, all 

 of them having completed their membership according to the rule. The 

 present enrollment of the Society is 342. Nineteen candidates for fel- 

 lowship and three nominees to correspondentship are before the Society 

 for election and several applications are under consideration by the 

 Council. 



Distribution of Bulletin. — Four new subscriptions to the Bulletin 

 make the number of subscribers 109. Three names have been dropped 

 from the exchange list, making the number of exchanges 63.* One copy 

 was sent gratis to the Library of Congress. 



The irregular distribution of the Bulletin during the past year has 

 been as follows : Complete volumes sold to the public, 58 ; sold to Fellows, 

 1 ; sent out to supply deficiencies, 2, and delinquents, 2 ; brochures sent 

 out to supply deficiencies, 34, and delinquents, 71 ; sold to Fellows, 21 ; 

 sold to the public, 73. 



Bulletin Sales. — The receipts from subscriptions to and sales of the 

 Bulletin during the past year are shown in the following table : 



Vol. 23, p. 39, 7th line, should have road 66 instead of (;.">. 



