616 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BALTIMORE MEETING 



On motion, the report of the Council was laid on the table for one day, 

 according to custom, and G. K. Gilbert and J. E. Wolff were elected a 

 committee to audit the accounts of the Treasurer. 



ELECTION OF OFFICERS 



President Calvin then announced the result of the balloting for officers 

 for 1909, as canvassed by the Council, and declared the following officers 

 elected : 



President : 



Grove K. Gilbert, Washington, D. C. 



First Vice-President : 

 Frank D. Adams, Montreal, Canada. 



Second Vice-President: 

 John M. Clares, Albany, New York. 



Secretary : 

 Edmund Otis Hovey, New York city. 



Treasurer: 

 William Bullock Clark, Baltimore, Maryland. 



Editor: 

 Joseph Stanley-Brown, New York city. 



Librarian: 

 H. P. Cushing, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Councilors: 



George Otis Smith, Washington, D. C. 

 Henry S. Washington, New York city. 



ELECTION OF FELLOWS 



The Secretary stated that the candidates for fellowship had been 

 elected by the transmitted ballots. The list is as follows : 



Eliot Blackwelder, A. B., Madison, Wisconsin. Assistant Professor of Geol- 

 ogy in the University of Wisconsin. 



William Phipps Blake, Ph. B., Tucson, Arizona. Director of the School of 

 Mines, Arizona, and Territorial Geologist. 



