AMENDMENT TO CONSTITUTION 681 



John Duer Irving, A. B., A. M., Ph. D., South Bethlehem, Pa. Assistant Pro- 

 fessor of Geology, Lehigh University ; Assistant Geologist, U. S. Geological 

 Survey. 



Albert Peter Low, B. S., Ottawa, Canada. Geologist, Geological Survey of 

 Canada. 



Rudolph Ruedemann, Ph. D., State Hall, Albany, N. Y. Assistant State 

 Paleontologist. 



Elias Howard Sellards, B. A., M. S., Ph. D., Lake City, Florida. Professor of 

 Geology, etc., in University of Florida. 



Frank Alonzo Wilder, A. B., Ph. D., Iowa City, Iowa. Professor of Economic 

 Geology and Mineralogy, University of Iowa, and State Geologist. 



Ira Abraham Williams, B. Sc, M. Sc, A. M., Ames, Iowa. Teacher, Iowa 

 State College. 



Joseph Edmund Woodman, S. B., A. M., S. D., Halifax, N. S. Assistant Pro- 

 fessor of Geology and Mineralogy, Dalhousie University. 



George Albert Young, B. A. Sc, M. Sc, Ph. D., Ottawa, Canada. Geologist, 

 Geological Survey of Canada. 



AMENDMENT TO CONSTITUTION 



The Secretary announced that the transmitted ballots on the proposed 

 changes in Article VI of the Constitution, as canvassed by the Council, 

 showed an affirmative vote in excess of three-fourths of the total member- 

 ship of the Society, and were therefore adopted as follows : 



Change Article VI, Meetings, section I, by dropping the matter in italics in 

 the following quotation : 



I. "The Society shall hold at least two stated meetings a year — a summer 

 meeting at the same locality and during the same tveek as the annual meeting 

 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science — and a 'winter 

 meeting. The date and place of the winter meeting shall be fixed by the Coun- 

 cil, and announced by circular each year within a mouth after the adjournment 

 of the summer meeting." . . . 



And by making insertions so that the section shall read as follows : 



I. The Society shall hold at least one stated meeting a year, in the winter 

 season. The date and place of the winter meeting shall be fixed by the Council, 

 and announced each year within three months after the adjournment of the 

 preceding winter meeting. 



The President called for the necrology, and memoirs of deceased Fel- 

 lows were presented as follows : 



MEMOIR OF GEORGE II. ELDRIDGE* 

 BY WHITMAN CROSS 



In the death of George Homans Eldridge, which occurred on June 29, 

 1905, at Washington, D. C, American geology lost one of its most enthu- 



* This memoir was not read, on account of the author's absence, but is here inserted in 

 its proper place. 



