18; PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOSTON-CAMBRIDGE MEETING 



Contents. — A table of contents must be prepared by the author, showing the 

 order in which the subject-matter of the paper has been treated. Such a table 

 of contents is the test of the logical preparation and presentation of a paper. 



Captions. — The Society has adopted four captions, the first of which is cen- 

 trally placed and printed in capitals and small capitals ; the second is in itali- 

 cised capitals centrally placed ; the third is a side or paragraph heading 

 printed in italics, and the fourth is a side heading in Roman type. 



Under each of the first three headings there should be at least two headings 

 of the next order of inferiority to warrant the use of the latter. For instance, 

 authors will frequently use a superior heading and then under it place only 

 one inferior heading. Manifestly, these two should be combined in one caption 

 appropriately referring to the next which follows. 



Footnotes. — Consecutive Arabic numerals should be used for the indication 

 of footnotes, beginning with "1," and the footnote should be inserted wherever 

 it may come on the typewritten page, with a ruled or dotted line immediately 

 above and below it. 



Illustrations. — Two classes of illustrations are employed in the Bulletin — 

 text figures and half-tone plates. The former are numbered from 1 upward in 

 each brochure, so that the numbering adopted by the author is not disturbed. 

 The latter, however, have consecutive numbering for the entire volume ; hence 

 an author should give each plate a tentative designation, such as A, B, C. 

 This designation will be replaced by the correct plate number and the author 

 given an opportunity to verify references. The plates are made up of one or 

 more figures. When more than one figure occurs on the page the first is desig- 

 nated "Figure 1," followed by the appropriate title; the second "Figure 2," 

 etcetera. In addition to this, the plate has a general title or plate title de- 

 scriptive of all the figures. An exception is made sometimes in the matter of 

 titling plate figures, when there are many illustrations to the page, as in 

 plates of fossils. In such cases a full description of the figures is usually 

 printed on a separate page facing the plate, all such plates being placed at 

 the end of the brochure. As all the text figures and all plates are scheduled 

 in the "preliminary matter" which precedes each volume, the desirability of 

 making captions as brief as is consistent with clearness is apparent. 



^lore comprehensive suggestions, which meet the general approval of the 

 Society's Council, are contained in the "Suggestions to Authors," compiled for 

 the United States Geological Survey by George McLane Wood. A copy of this 

 pamphlet has been sent to every Fellow of the Geological Society of America, 

 and careful study of its recommendations is urged on all those preparing 

 papers to be offered for publication in the Bulletin. 



Papers should always be submitted in typewriting. 



On motion, the report was ordered printed in full. 



The committee reports further that the Conncil, at the meeting of 

 October 14, 1909, voted to change the manner of issuing the Bulletin to 

 quarterly form, beginning March, 1910, with Part I of Volume XXI, 

 doing away with both the brochure form and the collated volume, except 

 that author's separates of the different memoirs will be issued like the 

 former brochures, thirty of which will be given gratis to authors, as here- 



