526 proceedings of thk rochester meeting 



Session of Tuesday Evening, December 31 



The Society convened at 8.30 o'clock in the College chapel, Anderson 

 Hall, for the presidential address. The title of the address was 



OUTLOOK OF THE GEOLOGIST IN AMERICA 

 BY THE PRESIDENT, CHARLES D. WALCOTT 



The address is printed as pages 99-118 of this volume. 



Session of Wednesday, January 1, 1902 



The Society convened at 9.50 o'clock a m, the President in the chair. 

 The report of the Council was taken from the table and adopted with- 

 out discussion. 



The Committee on Photographs submitted its report as follows : 



TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PHOTOGRAPHS 



There have been no additions to the collection of photographs during 

 the past year. Early last spring the committee appointed by the Coun- 

 cil, consisting of Mr G. K. Gilbert, Mr J. S. Diller, and myself, made an 

 examination of the entire collection and culled out such views as ap- 

 peared clearly not to be of value. These comprised about one- third of 

 the collection. The remainder, 1,431 prints, have been arranged by 

 states and countries in alphabetic sequence and renumbered. A new 

 catalog has been prepared, which gives titles of the photographs, their 

 size, and the name of their taker, and, as far as possible, the negative 

 number by which prints may be ordered. This catalog is now wait- 

 ing for negative numbers of several groups of U. S. Geological Survey 

 photographs formerly without numbers. These numbers are now being 

 arranged by the chief photographer of the Survey, and they will soon 

 be supplied. A classified subject-index of all the photographs has been 

 prepared for publication with the catalogue. It will afford a ready 

 means for the selection of views illustrating many geologic subjects. It 

 is believed that the publication* of this new catalog and index will 

 add greatly to the usefulness of the collection. 



Respectfully submitted. 



N. H. Darton, 



Committee. 



*The catalog and index of photographs is printed as a regular brochure and forms pages 377-474 

 of this volume. 



