168 The American Naturalist. [February, 



The Geological Society of America held its eighth Annual 

 Meeting, and the fifteenth meeting of the Society in the Geological 

 Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, December 26th to 28th. 

 The number of Fellows in attendance was sixty. The first session was 

 convened at 2 o'clock on Thursday afternoon with President N. S. 

 -hale, in the chair. The report of the Council, consisting of the de- 

 tailed reports of the officers for the year 1895, was submitted in print. 

 This report showed a properous condition of the Society ; following are 

 some of the items: membership 226, libraries subscribing for the bul- 

 letin 59, receipts during the year from the sale of the bulletin 8461.50, 

 number of exchanges 85. The library is deposited with the Case 

 Library at Cleveland. Besides printing six volumes of the bulletin, 

 $3000 has been invested as a publication fund. 



Announcement was made of the election by transmitted ballots of 

 officers for 1896 as follows : 



President, Joseph LeConte; First Vice-President, C. H. Hitchcock ; 

 Second Vice-President, Edward Orton ; Secretary H. L. Fairchild ; 

 Treasurer, I. C. White ; Editor, J. Stanley Brown ; Councillors, B. K.' 

 Emerson, J. M. Safford. 



The following Fellows were declared elected : Harry F. Bain, Des 

 Moines, Iowa ; William K. Brooks, Baltimore, Md. ; Charles R. East- 

 man, Cambridge, Mass. ; Henry B. Kummel, Trenton, N. J. ; William 

 II. Norton, Mt. Vernon, Iowa ; Frank B. Taylor, Fort Wayne, Ind. ; 

 Jay B. Wood worth, Cambridge, Mass. 



A memorial of James D. Dana, written by Joseph LeConte, was 

 read by H. S. Williams. This was not only an appreciative sketch of 

 Dana's life, but an admirable discussion of the true character of geology 

 as a science, and of the great influence of Dana in giving geology a 



Other short memorials of Henry B. Nason, Albert E. Foote and 



A message of regard was voted to J. P. Lesley, who was unable to 

 attend the meeting on account of illness. 



The Society held a morning and an afternoon session on Friday and 

 a morning session on Saturday. It was announced that the next sum- 

 mer meeting, to be held in August in connection with the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, would be devoted chiefly 



papers read was not as long as at the Baltimore meeting, 

 im was of excellent quality. Following are the titles of 



The list of 



