J. B. Newberry. 

 Alexander Winchell. 

 George H. Cook. 

 H. S. Williams. 

 N. H. Winchell. 

 L. E. Hicks. 

 Edward Orton. 



C. H. Hitchcock. 

 J. C. Branner. 

 John E. Procter. 

 J. J. Stevenson. 

 W J McGee. 

 Chas. C. Abbott. 



D. S. Kellicott. 

 Albert L. Arey. 

 A. D. Morrill. 

 J. W. Spencer. 

 H. P. Gushing. 



Persifor 



Peter Neff. 

 J. W. Powell. 

 Julius Pohlman. 

 J. P. Kemp. 

 J. H. Chapin. 

 a. w. yogdes. 

 Geo. p. Kunz. 

 C. W. Hall. 

 Frederick W. Simonds. 

 S. G. Williams. 

 G. P. Wright. 

 J. E. Todd. 

 Homer T. Fuller. 

 H. B. Patton. 

 W. E. Taylor. 

 N". H. Crump. 

 W. H. Pettee. 

 A. E. FooTE. 

 Frazer. 



746 C. H. HITCHCOCK NOTE ON ORGANIZATION OF THE SOClE^TY 



that it was time to organize an American geological society. The precise 

 relations of the new organization to Section E advocated in the call were 

 modified. It was agreed that the original members of the new society 

 should be restricted to those who were enrolled in the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, but that after January 1, 1889, 

 other persons would be eligible. The new society was to be entirely dis- 

 tinct from Section E, while the summer meetings were to be held at the 

 same locality. 



Thirty-seven persons subscribed to the provisional constitution before 

 the adjournment of the Association at Cleveland, and by November 1 

 more than one hundred names had been obtained, and the establishment I 

 of a vigorous geological society was assured. No further mention of the 

 various steps by which the organization was perfected need be mentioned, 

 as they are given in volume 1, our object being simply to complete the 

 records of the early history of the organization. 



A second historical sketch, giving the details subsequent to the Cleve- 

 land meeting and the final organization at Ithaca December 27, is given 

 in the American Geologist for February^ 1889. 



The names of the thirty-seven persons who were the first to accept the 

 conditions of fellowship at Cleveland are the following: 



