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Expenses. — The following table gives the cost of administration and of 

 Bulletin distribution during the past year : 



EXPENDITURE OF SECRETARY'S OFFICE DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING NOY£:^IBER 



30, 1909 



Account of Administration 



Postage and telegrams $49. 1 3 



Express 4.43 



Stationery and printing 181.70 



Addressograph plates .72 



Stenographer at 1908 meeting 150.00 



Lantern operator at 1908 meeting 6.00 



Labor and materials , 9. 15 



Binding 3.50 



Expenses of Cordilleran Section. 7.97 



Expenses of Paleontological Society 56.83 



Total 1469.43 



Account of Bulletin 



Postage $132.39 



Express 39.20 



Collection on checks 1.50 



Labor and materials 1.05 



Stationery and printing 21.95 



Binding 1.00 



Total $197.09 



Total expenses for the year $666.52 



Respectfully submitted. 



Edmund Otis Hovey, 



Secretary. 

 New York, December 15, 1909. 



Treasurer's Effort 



To the Council of the Geological Society of America : 



The Treasurer herewith submits his annual report for the year ending 

 December 1,1909: 



Eight (8) Fellows, Charles Schuchert, H. V. Winchell, Earle Sloan, 

 Eliot Blackwelder, H. E. Gregory, G. B. Richardson, Ralph Arnold, 

 and Edward B. Mathews, have commuted for life during the year by 

 the payment of one hundred dollars each, thus increasing the total Life 

 Commutations to ninety-three (93), which with four (4) Honorary 



