478 PROCEEDINGS OF ' THE ROCHESTER MEETING 



In pursuance of its duty the Council, on December 29, 1899, appointed 

 a committee to formulate rules for the guidance of the Cordilleran Sec- 

 tion and to report to the Council. This committee was named as follows : 

 Messrs Bailey Willis, J. J. Stevenson, J. C. Brainier, W. M. -Davis, and 

 the Secretary. It was impracticable for the committee to meet and the 

 work was done by correspondence, Mr Bailey Willis acting as Chairman. 

 A unanimous report was submitted in May and was adopted by the 

 Council at Denver, August 26, 1901. Following are the rules as adopted : 



Rules of the Cordilleran Section 

 (Adopted by the Council August 26, 1901) 



1. Officers. — The officers of the Cordilleran Section shall be a Chairman and a 

 Secretary. The latter shall also perform the duties of an accounting officer with 

 reference to the expenses of meetings. 



The officers of the Section shall be resident within the geographical limits of the 

 Section. A President or Vice-President of the Society shall be, ex officio, Chair- 

 man of the Section whenever present at a meeting. 



2. Geographical limits. — For purposes of scientific fellowship and discussion the 

 limits of the Section shall correspond with the limits of the general Society, and 

 the meetings of the Section shall be open to all Fellows of the Society for presenta- 

 tion of papers, either in person or by proxy. For purposes of administration the 

 membership of the Section shall be limited to those Fellows residing west of the 

 104th meridian. 



3. Membership. — No person not a member of the Society may become a member 

 of the Section. Members may invite contributions to the discussions at their 

 meetings under the same rules as those applied to meetings of the Society. 



4. Date of meetings. — The meetings of the Section may be held at any time, sub- 

 ject to approval by the Council of the Society (article 4 of Constitution). All 

 notices and programs of meetings shall be sent to all Fellows of the Society. 



5. Expenses. — The expenses of the Section, so far as they shall be paid from the 

 general fund of the Society, shall be limited to the ordinary economical expenses 

 of the meetings. 



6. Publications. — All papers presented to the Section shall be available for pub- 

 lication in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America under the rules gov- 

 erning publication by the Society. 



Professor A. C. Lawson, a member of the Council and Secretary of the 

 Cordilleran Section, stated that the Section desired to hold annual meet- 

 ings in December, and the Council gave approval by formal vote. 



Secretary's Report 



To the Council of the Geological Society of America : 



Meetings. — The records of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting, held in 

 Albany, December, 1900, and the Thirteenth Summer Meeting, Den- 

 ver, August, 1901, are printed in the Bulletin. According to custom, 



