392 PROCEEDINGS OF MONTREAL MEETING. 
The administrative business of the session was introduced by the re- 
port of the Council, which was submitted in print as follows: 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
To the Geological Society of America, 
in Tenth Annual Meeting assembled : 
The Council has held but one meeting during the past year. No meet- 
ing was held at Detroit, with a quorum, as three of the officers were in 
Russia at the International Geological Congress, and all the Councilors 
were in the field or otherwise prevented from attending. The determina- 
tion of matters essential to the Winter meeting was made by the President 
and Secretary in conference with other Fellows of the Society and by 
subsequent correspondence of the Council (see By-Laws, chap. ii, sec. 7). 
It seemed desirable that a Librarian should be named to receive and 
acknowledge the geological literature which is presented to the Society, 
to have more immediate supervision of the library than the Secretary 
~ could give, and to be in frequent communication with the officers of the 
Case Library. Fortunately the Society has in Cleveland an excellent 
representative, and acting under the discretion given in the Constitution, 
article iv, section 6, the Council has reeommended the election of a Libra- 
rian and has nominated Professor H. P. Cushing. 
The Society continues to grow in numbers and influence and is pros- 
perous in every way. The continued financial depression has not appar- 
ently affected the sale of the Bulletin or the condition of the Treasury. 
The details of administration are shown in the following reports of the 
officers : 
SECRETARY’S REPORT 
To the Council of the Geological Society of America : 
Meetings——The Summer meeting, held at Detroit, Tuesday, August 10, 
occupied for that day the time and place of Section E, American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science. The program was covered in 
the oneday. This plan of dividing time with Section E was much more 
satisfactory than the experiment tried the previous summer, of holding 
only an executive session and reading all papers by title. The plan was 
satisfactory both to the Society and to the Association, and it is under- 
stood that the same will be followed at the next meeting. 
Membership.cWe have lost two Fellows by death, Joseph F. James, 
who died March 29, and Edward D. Cope, who died April 12. The last 
printed list (A pril, 1897) included the names of 233 Fellows. Nine names 
of Fellows elected at the Summer meeting must be added to the roll, as 
follows: R. E. Dodge, C. R. Dryer, W..C. Knight, C. F. Marbut, H. F. 
