AMENDMENTS OF THE CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 19 



tofore, and a supply will be retained b}' the Secretary to meet the demand 

 for single articles. The change to a quarterly issue has been made to 

 facilitate publication and to take advantage of entry in the post-office as 

 second-class matter, thereby effecting a material saving in the expense of 

 distribution. 



AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 



The Secretary then announced that more than three-fourths of the 

 Fellows of the Society had voted in favor of the amendments to the 

 Constitution which had been proposed in due form in March, 1909, and 

 that they therefore were operative. They are those referred to in the 

 report of the Committee on the Formation of the Paleontological Soci- 

 ety and are as follows : 



Insert Article VIII (new) : "SectiojNts. Any group of Fellows representing 

 a particular branch of geology may, with consent of the Council, organize as a 

 section of the Society with separate constitution and by-laws, provided that 

 nothing in such constitution and by-laws conflicts with the Constitution and 

 By-Laws of the Geological Society of America, in letter or spirit, and provided 

 that such constitution and by-laws and all amendments thereto shall have 

 been approved by the Council." 



Change the number of the present Article YIII to IX. 



Yice-President Adams then called for a vote on the amendment to the 

 By-Laws, which had been proposed in due form in the Secretary's March 

 circular, as follows : 



Add to Chapter IV, paragraph 1, this sentence : "One of the nominees for 

 vice-president shall be the nominee for president of the Paleontological Society 

 which has been organized as a section under Article VIII of the Constitution." 



On motion, this amendment was unanimously adopted. 



REPORT OF TEE PHOTOGRAPH COMMITTEE 



A report from the Photograph Committee was then called for, but 

 was not presented on account of the absence of N. H. Darton, who con- 

 stitutes the committee.^ 



^ Since the close of the meeting the report has been transmitted to the Secretary, and 

 is as follows : 



Twentieth Annual Report or the Committee on Photographs 



During the year 1909 there has been no change in the collection of photographs be- 

 longing to the Society. No new views have been offered. Several members have in- 

 spected the collection, and ordered prints from negatives belonging to the United States 

 Geological Survey. 



The collection is stored in a chest and bundle in my office in the building of the Geo- 

 logical Survey at Washington, where it can be readily consulted. 



Respectfully submitted. N. H. Darton, 



Committee. 



