treasurer's report 451 



Two Fellows were dropped from the roll daring the year for non-pay- 

 ment of dues; five (5) others are delinquent for two years, and after 

 January 1 will be subject to loss of Fellowship for non-payment, while 

 thirty-five (35), a much larger number than usual, are delinquent for 

 one year — 1900. 



Five Fellows, namely, A. H. Brooks, J. B. Hastings, A. F. Foerste, 

 Samuel L. Penfield, and Heinrich Ries, have commuted for life since the 

 last report, thus raising the number of Life Members to forty-eight (48). 



No permanent investments have been made during the year, but a 

 large deposit has been kept with the Security Trust Company of Roches- 

 ter, New York, on which the Society is still paid interest on monthly 

 balances at the rate of four (4) per cent. The item of $97.23 interest 

 shows the income from this source, which, added to the $273.00 from 

 the invested fund of $5,000, makes the total income of $370.23 from the 

 Society's surplus funds. 



The detailed financial transactions of the Society are presented in the 

 statement on the preceding page. 



Respectfully submitted. 



I. C. White, 

 MoRGANTOWN, West Va., December 20^ 1900. Treasurer, 



Editor's Report 



lo the Council of the Geological Society of America : 



The Editor takes pleasure in announcing that the past year has been 

 a very satisfactory one in the matter of the Society's publications. The 

 last brochure of volume 11, the most copiously illustrated volume ever 

 issued by the Society and next to the largest in number of pages, was 

 completed October 31. It consists of 651 pages of text and xii pages of 

 preliminary matter and is illustrated with 58 plates and 37 cuts. Such 

 of the papers of the Summer meeting as have been offered for publication 

 are in print, and make 56 pages of volume 12. If the papers of the 

 Winter meeting are promptly handed in by the authors, there is no 

 reason why this volume should not be completed by June, thus avoid- 

 ing the delay which sometimes arises from the scattering of members to 

 their various fields of summer work, and their consequent inaccessibility 

 for the correction of proof. 



At this writing the index of volumes 1 to 10, inclusive, is in type. 

 Involving as it did somewhat more work than was first anticipated, it 

 was not practicable to issue it during the summer, but it will be disposed 

 of before the close of the year. 



Although exact classification is not attempted, the following compara- 



