460 PROCEEDINGS OF PHILADELPIir A MEETING. 



Upon motion of the Secretaiy, it was voted to lay the Council's report 

 upon the table until Friday morning. 



As the Auditing Committee to examine the accounts of the Treasurer 

 the Society elected Frank Leverett and Jed Hotchkiss. 



ELECTION OF OFFICERS 



The result of the balloting for officers for 1896, as canvassed by the 

 Council, was announced by the Secretary, and officers were declared 

 elected as follows : 



President : 



Joseph Le Conte, Berkeley, Cal. 



First Vice-President: 

 Charles H. Hitchcock, Hanover, N. H. 



Second Vice-President : 

 Edward Orton, Columbus, O. 



Secretary : 

 H. L. Fairchild, Rochester, N. Y. 



Treasurer : 

 I. C. White, Morgantown, W. Va. 



Editor : 

 J. Stanley-Brown, Washington, D. C. 



Councillors {term expires 1898 ).• 



B. K. Emerson, Amherst, Mass. 

 J. M. Safford, Nashville, Tenn. 



ELECTION OF FELLOWS 



The result of the balloting for Fellows, as canvassed by the Council, 

 was announced, and the following persons were declared elected Fellows 

 of the Society : 



Harry Foster Bain, M. S., Des Moines, Iowa. Assistant Geologist Iowa Geological 

 Survey. 



William Keith Brooks, Ph. D., Baltimore, Maryland. Professor of Zoology in 

 Johns Hopkins University. 



Charles Rochester Eastman, A. M., Ph. D., Cambridge, Massachusetts. Assist^ 

 ant in Paleontology in Museum of Comparative Zoology, and in Harvard Uni- 

 versity. 



