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The report of the Council was called for, and was presented by the 

 Secretary, in print, as follows : 



■ REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



To the Geological Society of America, 



in Eighteenth Annual Meeting Assembled: 



The stated Annual Meeting of the Council was held at Philadelphia 

 conjointly with the meeting of the Society. It has been unnecessary to 

 hold any special meeting, but some routine business has been done by 

 correspondence. 



The following reports of the officers give the details of administration 

 for another prosperous year, the seventeenth, in the history of the Society. 



Secretary's Report 



To the Council of the Geological Society of America: 



Meetings. — The record of the Philadelphia Winter Meeting, 1904, will 

 be found in the closing brochure of volume 16 of the Bulletin. 



The adoption of the constitutional amendment relating to summer 

 meetings gives the Council and Society liberty in the matter of summer 

 meetings. 



Membership. — Since the last publication of the list of Fellows, the 

 names of two Fellows have been removed by death — George H. Eldridge 

 and Albert A. Wright. The names of 15 new Fellows have been added to 

 the list and one removed by resignation. This makes the present enroll- 

 ment 271, or 12 more than at the last printing. Sixteen nominations are 

 now before the Society and several candidates are awaiting action by the 

 Council. 



Distribution of Bulletin. — At this date 446 joages of volume 16 have 

 been distributed and the remaining brochures are approaching completion. 

 The irregular distribution of the Bulletin during the past year has been 

 as follows : Complete volumes sold to the public, 33 ; sold to Fellows, 25. 

 Brochures sent to supply deficiencies, 38 ; sold to the public, 34 ; sold to 

 Fellows, 22. One copy of volume 15 has been donated and 3 copies bound 

 for use of the officers and the Library. One complete set of the Bulletin 

 volumes has been sold to a library and one set to a Fellow. 



Bulletin Sales. — Eeceipts from the sale of the Bulletin during the past 

 year appear in the following table : 



