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Eeport of the Coui^cil 



To the Geological Society of America, 



in Twenty-second Annual Meeting assembled : 



The regular annual meeting of the Council was held at Baltimore, 

 Maryland, in connection with the meeting of the Society, December 29, 

 1908, to January 1, 1909. An adjourned meeting was held in New 

 York city on October 14, 1909, and some business has been transacted 

 by correspondence. 



The details of administration for the twenty-first year of the exist- 

 ence of the Society are given in the following reports of the officers: 



Secretary's Report 



To the Council of the Geological Society of America: 



Meetings. — The proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society held 

 at Baltimore, Maryland, December 29, 1908, to January 1, 1909, have 

 been recorded in the closing brochure of volume 20 of the Bulletin, 

 which is now in press. 



Membership. — During the past year the Society has lost two Fellows 

 by death, Persifor Frazer and Daniel W. Langton, and one member has 

 been dropped on account of non-payment of dues. The names of the 

 fourteen Fellows elected at the Baltimore meeting have been added to 

 the list, all of them having completed their membership according to 

 rule. The present enrollment of the Society is 305. Twenty-four 

 candidates are before the Society for election, and several applications 

 are under consideration by Council. 



Distribution of Bulletin. — There have now been distributed 9 brochures, 

 comprising 356 pages, of volume 20, and the remaining brochures, in- 

 cluding the Proceedings, are in the hands of the printers in various 

 stages of completion. By action of the Publication Committee no manu- 

 scripts were accepted by the Secretary after October 1. 



There are now 95 regular subscribers for the Bulletin and 75 institu- 

 tions that receive the publication on exchange. 



The irregular distribution of the Bulletin during the past year has 

 been as follows: Complete volumes, sold to the public, including one 

 complete set, 30; sent out to supply delinquents, 12; sent out to supply 

 deficiencies, 4; brochures sent out to supply deficiencies and delinquents, 

 189; sold to Fellows, 15; sold to the public, 48. Three copies of 

 volume 19 have been bound for the use of the officers and the library. 



Bulletin Sales. — The receipts from the sale of the Bulletin during the 

 past year are shown in the following table : 



