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The American Geologist. 
February, 
dent; C. H. Hitchcock, of Hanover, N. H., and Edward Orton, 
of Columbus, Ohio, vice-presidents; H. L. Fairchild, of 
Rochester, N. Y., secretary; I. C. White, of Morgantown. 
W. Va., treasurer; Joseph Stanley-Brown, of Washington, 
I). C., editor; and B. K. Emerson, of Amherst, Mass., and 
J. M. Salford, of Nashville, Tenn., new members of the 
council. 
Seven new fellows were announced as elected, namely, 
H. Foster Bain, of Des Moines, Iowa, assistant on the Iowa 
geological survey; William K. Brooks, of Baltimore, Md., 
professor of zoology in Johns Hopkins University; Charles 
R. Eastman, of Cambridge, Mass., assistant in paleontology 
in Harvard University ; Henry B. Kiimmel, of Trenton, N. J., 
assistant on the New Jersey geological survey; William H. 
Norton, of Mt. Vernon, Iowa, professor of geology in Cornell 
College ; Frank B. Taylor, of Fort Wayne, Ind., engaged in 
Pleistocene geology: and Jay B. Woodworth, of Cambridge, 
Mass., instructor in Harvard University. 
The Society now numbers about 230 fellows, and it has lost 
seventeen by d^ath, four of these during the year 1895. 
Memorials of these recently deceased members were presented 
as follows: of James D. Dana, by Joseph LeConte (read by 
H. S. Williams); of Henry B. Nason, by T. C. Chamberlin 
(read by Bailey Willis); of Albert E. Foote, by George F. 
lvunz (read by J. F. Kemp); and of Antonio del Castillo, by 
Ezequiel Ordonez (read by secretary Fairchild.) 
The committee on photographs reported 203 additions dur¬ 
ing the year. The total collection owned by the Society and 
exhibited at this meeting numbers 1283. This committee 
solicits donations, which may be sent to the chairman, I)r. 
George P. Merrill, of the U. S. National Museum, Washing¬ 
ton, I). C. They will be duly acknowledged in the publica¬ 
tions of the Society. 
It was voted that, in the summer meetings with the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science, this 
Society shall hold only business sessions, and that the papers 
then presented shall be read only by title. These papers, it is 
urged, should be read and discussed in Section E (Geology 
and Geography) of the Association, but they may be accepted 
for printing in the Bulletin of the Society. Much attention 
