78 PROCEEDINGS OF THE WASHINGTON MEETING 



Secretary's Report 



To the Council of the Paleontological Society: 



The proceedings of the second annual meeting of the Society, held at 

 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 28-29, 1910, have been recorded in 

 Volume XXII, pages 85-102, of the Bulletin of the Geological Society of 

 America. Copies of this as well as of the other publications of the 

 Society have been sent to every member. 



At the annual meeting of the Council and by correspondence the list 

 of officers for 1912 was prepared and, according to the By-Laws, for- 

 warded to the members on March 19, 1911. It was then also announced 

 that the third annual meeting of the Society would occur in Washington, 

 D. C, beginning December 28, 1911, at the invitation of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, extended through the Secretary, Dr. Charles D. Walcott. 



During the past year the Society has lost one member by death. Prof. 

 Samuel Calvin. Two resignations have become effective. The names of 

 the eleven members elected at the Pittsburgh meeting have been added to 

 the list and all of them have completed their membership according to 

 rule. The present enrollment of the Society is 124. Twelve candidates 

 are before the Society for election and thirteen applications are under 

 consideration by the Council. 



Following the authorization of the Council, Prof. J. C. Merriam organ- 

 ized a Pacific Coast section of the Paleontological Society, which held its 

 first meeting last March. Professor Merriam reports a very successful 

 meeting, with fourteen papers presented and about thirty in attendance. 



At the last meeting of the Society a committee was appointed to pre- 

 pare a report on securing a change in the classification of the freight 

 rates on fossils. The chairman of this committee. Dr. W. J. Holland, 

 has submitted the following: 



Report of Committee Appointed at the Pittsburgh Meeting to Secure a 

 Change of Classification in Freight Rates on Fossils 



I desire to report that, as chairman of the committee appointed to secure a 

 reduction in the rates which have hitherto been charged on fossils, imme- 

 diately after the adjournment of the meeting I took the matter up with Mr. 

 F. S. Holbrook, of the Official Classification Committee in New York, and with 

 the officers of the Transcontinental Freight Association and the Southern 

 Classification Committee. I was seconded in my efforts by Mr. Joseph Wood, 

 the president of the Pennsylvania lines West, and other officers of the Penn- 

 sylvania Railroad, who extended to me every courtesy. As a result, the Offi- 

 cial Classification in New York, which covers all of the roads east of tlH» 

 Mississippi River, acceded to my request, and by consulting their rate sheets 

 the members of the Society will see that fossils extracted from rock, boxed, 



