38 PROCEEDINGS OF THE WASHINGTON MEETING 



Presented in abstract from notes. Discussed by A. C. Lane and F. E. 

 Van Horn, with reply by J. Yolney Lewis. 



Adjournment was taken at 4.45 o'clock p. m. 



Session of Thursday, December 28 



The session was called to order at 10.10 o'clock a. m. by President 

 Davis. Special announcements were made by the Secretary, including 

 particularly an invitation from the Director of the Seismological Obser- 

 vatory of Georgetown L^niversity to visit the observatory, where there are 

 installed four first-class seismographs. 



The Council Eeport was taken from the table and, on motion, was ac- 

 cepted and ordered printed. It was as follows : 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



To the Geological Society of America., in twenty-fourth annual meeting 

 assembled: 



The regular annual meeting of the Council was held at Pittsburgh, 

 Pennsylvania, in connection with the meeting of the Societ}% December 

 27 to 29, 1910. An adjourned meeting was held in ^ew York city on 

 February 25, 1911, and some business has been transacted by correspond- 

 ence. 



The details of administration for the twenty-third year of the exist- 

 ence of the Society are given in the following reports of the officers : 



Seceetary's Report 



To the Council of the Geological Society of America: 



Meetings. — The proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society held 

 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 27 to 29, 1910, have been re- 

 corded in volume 22, pages 1-84, of the Bulletin. 



Membership. — During the past year the Society has lost five Fellows 

 by death: Samuel Calvin, Samuel F. Emmons, Christopher W. Hall, 

 Edwin E. Howell, and Amos 0. Osborn : and one Correspondent — 

 A. Michel-Levy. One resignation has become efl^ective, and one Fellow 

 has been dropped for non-payment of dues. The names of the eight Fel- 

 lows elected at the Pittsburgh meeting have been added to the list, all of 

 them having completed their membership according to rule. The present 

 enrollment of the Society is 320, Twenty-nine candidates are before th^ 



