COUNCIL^S REPORT 79 



are rated as first class ; fossils in rock, less than carloads, are rated as second 

 class, and in carloads of 30,000 ix>uuds they are rated fourth class. The 

 Western Classification Committee has supplemented its classification by the 

 enactment of the following, to take effect after December 15, 1911 : 



Fossil specimens: 



In the rock: 



In crates 1 



In barrels or boxes 2 



In packages or loose, carload, minimum weight 



24,000 pounds 4 



Not in the rock : 



In barrels or boxes 1 



In packages named, carload, minimum weight 



20,000 pounds 3 



Fossil casts or reproductions: 

 Cement or plaster: 



In barrels or boxes 1 



In packages named, straight or mixed, carload, 



minimum weight 20,000 pounds 3 



Your committee apparently has not labored in vain. The rates accorded by 

 the Western Classification Committee are slightly more favorable, as will be 

 observed, than are accorded by the Official Classification in New York, repre- 

 senting the roads east of the Mississippi. Your committee would be happy, 

 however, if all the railw^ays could be led to feel, as he is aware some of the 

 Western railroads do, that museums and colleges are properly regarded, and 

 have been judicially held to be regarded as "charitable institutions," and that 

 therefore the forwarding of scientific specimens free of charge might be under- 

 taken without violation either of the spirit or letter of the regulations adopted 

 by the Interstate Commerce Commission. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



(Signed) W. J. Holland, 



Committee. 



At the last election for Fellows in the Geological Society of America, 

 E. B. Branson and Burnett Smith, members of the Paleontological So- 

 ciety, proposed by the Council, were elected to Fellowship. Walter 

 Granger, Lawrence M. Lambe, E. S. Riggs, R. Anderson, Frank Springer, 

 and C. E. Stauffer, of our Society, were also elected to Fellowship in the 

 Geological Society of America on the nomination of individual Fellows 

 of the two Societies. 



The members of the Council representing Vertebrate Paleontology 

 suggested a Symposium for the Washington meeting, entitled "Ten 

 Years' Progress in Vertebrate Paleontology," and proposed a list of the 



