539 



Long experience has convinced the Council that the prices at which 

 the Society's publications have been offered to its Fellows and the public 

 have been too high, and the rates for the brochures of volume 15 have 

 been reduced to cost plus 100 per cent to members and cost plus 200 

 per cent to the public. The prices are given in each volume in the pre- 

 liminary matter. In volume 15 they are on pages vii and viii. 



Owing to the fact that summer meetings have been abandoned prac- 

 tically, volume 15 begins with the presidential address instead of the 

 proceedings of the summer meeting, as heretofore. 



Respectfully submitted. 



Joseph Stanley-Brown, 



New York, December 10, 1904. Editor. 



Librarian's Report 



To the Council of the Geological Society of America : 



The accessions to the library for the past year have been duly cata- 

 logued and acknowledged as received, and the list of accessions up to 

 July 1 has been made out and transmitted for publication in the Bul- 

 letin. 



The library now comprises some 2,600 numbers, of which 1,400 are 

 bound volumes. Of these 1,200 belong to the continuing sets of publi- 

 cations received as exchanges, the remainder being scattering and indi- 

 vidual publications. Some 200 of these volumes were received bound, 

 while the remainder have been bound by the Case Library authorities. 



Pamphlets and individual separates make up the remaining numbers,, 

 although there are quite a number of maps. None of these have been 

 bound ; yet they should be the better to preserve them, and their proper 

 disposal in this respect is a perplexing problem, concerning which the 

 Librarian would be glad to receive suggestions. This is especially the 

 case with the maps. Cleveland is such a smoky city that it is by no 

 means an ideal place in which to keep even bound books, and unbound 

 materials tend to rapid deterioration. 



The expenses of this office for the past year are as follows : 



To express $1 50 



To postage 1 16 



To clerk hire 5 00 



$7 66 

 Respectfully submitted. 



H. P. Gushing, 

 Cleveland, Ohio, December 10, 1904. Librarian. 



On motion of the Secretary, it was voted to defer consideration of the 

 Council report until the following day. 



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