AMENDMENTS TO BY-LAWS 535 



Professor W. H. Hobbs asked for information as to the delay in })ub- 

 lication of volume 13 of the Bulletin. The Editor, Mr J. Stanley-Brown, 

 explained that it was due to delay in obtaininp^ proofs from authors, 

 especially during the summer. After some discussion it was voted that 

 the Publication Committee should have power to hold belated papers 

 for the succeeding volume. 



The proposed changes in the By-Laws submitted by the Council at 

 the Rochester meeting were called up for action. After a brief discus- 

 sion they w^ere adopted, as follows: In chapter IV, section 1, add the 

 following two sentences : " This ticket must be approved by a majority 

 of the entire Council." " The nominee for President shall not be a 

 member of the Council." In section 2 make the following three changes 

 in verbiage: Change "forty days" to " nine months." Change "20 

 days " to " 40 days." Change " 15 days " to " 25 days." 



The Secretary read a telegram of greeting from the Cordilleran Sec- 

 tion, then holding its annual meeting in San Francisco. The Society 

 instructed the Secretar}^ to return its cordial greeting. 



Several announcements were made of details concerning the order of 

 papers, etcetera, and that the rearranged set of photographs owned b}^ the 

 Society was displayed in an adjoining room. 



The memoir of Alpheus Hyatt, deferred from Tuesday morning, was 

 read by W. 0. Crosby. (See page 504.) 



The first paper of the scientific program was one received from the 

 list of Section E, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 entitled 



ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF MICHIGAN 

 BY ALFRED C. LANE 



The paper was discussed b}^ J. F. Kemp, W. M. Davis, and W. N. 

 Rice. A short abstract is printed in Science, volume xvii, page 218. 



The second paper was 



PALEOZOIC CORAL REEFS 

 BY A. W. GRABAU 



The subject was discussed b}^ A. C. Lane, H. S. Williams, H. L. Fair- 

 child, and T. C. Chamberlin. The paper is printed as pages 337-352 

 of this volume. 



LXXIV— Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. 14. 1902 



