102 PROCEEDINGS OF THE P ALTEON TOIXMJIC AX K ' IETY 



The Council's proposed ballot, with the announcement that the fourth 

 annual meeting of the Society would occur at Xew Haven, Connecticut, 

 at the invitation of the Xew Haven members, was forwarded to the mem- 

 bers on March 15. 1912. 



Membership. — During the past year the Society has lost one of its 

 correspondents by death. Prof. E. Koken. of the University of Tubingen. 

 Two resignations have occurred. The twelve candidates elected at the 

 third annual meeting have been added to the membership, and, upon 

 request, two Fellows of the Geological Society of America. G. H. Chad- 

 wick and L. TV. Stephenson, were placed on our rolls with the approval 

 of the Council. The present enrollment of the Society is 135. Seven- 

 teen candidates are before the Society for election and five applications 

 are under consideration by the Council. 



At this years election for Fellows in the Geological Society of Amer- 

 ica members Charles Butts and Edwin Kirk, of the Paleontological 

 Society, were elected to Fellowship on the nomination of individual 

 Fellows of the two Societies. 



mmittee on Publication Fund. — At the Washington meeting Dr. 

 Charles D. Walcott and Prof. Charles Sehuehert, the latter as chairman, 

 were appointed a committee to secure a publication fund. This com- 

 mittee reports that it has not yet succeeded in raising such a fund or 

 in making any progress toward a publication for the Paleontological 

 S iety. The chairman has asked that the committee be retained for 

 another year, to which the Council has agreed. 



Publication of Abstracts. — As it has been inexpedient heretofore for 

 various reasons to publish abstracts of papers offered for presentation at 

 the meetings and impossible to print all the papers submitted, the 

 : cil voted to print all abstracts in the Proceedings. The Secretary 

 therefore has introduced all the abstracts ibniitted in the present 

 minutes. 



Pacifi' Section. — The Secretary of the Pacri S :ion 



the Society reports that their third annual meeting was held in the 

 Geology Building at Stanford University. California, on Saturday. April 

 12. with President J. P. Smith presiding. 



The minutes of this meeting are printed on pages 12 to 132 of this 

 Bulletin. 



-pect fully submitted. 



B. S. Bassler, 



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 Washington, I 12. 



