editor's report 485 



experience in the U. S. Geological Survey. To them is due in largest 

 measure the credit for whatever merit the index possesses. 



The present Editor is responsible for indexing seven of the ten vol- 

 umes, but the first three of the series were indexed by Mr W J McGee, 

 whose excellent standard was followed both in the individual volumes 

 and in making the compilation. 



All the material handed the Editor for publication in volume 13 is 

 in the printer's hands and proof is being read. It will probably make 

 some 75 pages. 



Members are earnestly urged to send the manuscripts read or presented 

 at the winter meeting as speedily as possible after its sessions are ended. 

 The chief source of delay in closing the volume at the end of the year 

 is inability to get the proof quickly to and from members scattered 

 in their various summer and autumn fields of work. 



Respectfully submitted. 



Joseph Stanley-Brown, 



Washington, D. C, December /,£, 1901. Editor. 



Librarian's Report 



To the Council of the Geological Society of America : 



The list of accessions to the Library up to June, 1901, was compiled 

 and forwarded in June and appears in the final brochure of volume 12 

 of the Bulletin, pages 503-512. 



At the present writing the library comprises over 2000 numbers. Of 

 these, some 500 represent pamphlets and other scattering material, while 

 the remainder is nearly all received from our exchanges, now numbering 

 87, and consists either of serial publications or official reports. The 

 majority of these come serially and unbound, and are bound at the ex- 

 pense of the Case Library. One hundred and fifty volumes have been 

 bound during the year ending in June, and 160 more are now at the 

 bindery. Three years ago the binding was sadly in arrears, but this has 

 been made up, and in future merely the annual increase, from 75 to 100 

 volumes, will require binding. 



At this writing the Case Libraiy is moving from its old quarters to 

 new ones. Thes'e latter are rented and comprise the entire eighth floor 

 of a new and modern fireproof building. The library will be better 

 and more spaciously housed than formerty. and will in its new quarters 

 hardly require the carrying of any fire insurance. 



There has not been a single call for books during the year from mem- 

 bers of the Society not residing in Cleveland ; yet it would seem that 

 there should certain!}' be a use for the library on the part of the mem- 



