«0 The American Geologist, February, i-.« 
< I *- 1 1 1 r c. H. Hitchcock, of Hanover, N.H., and Edward Orton, 
of Columbus, Ohio, vice-presidents; 11. L. Eairchild, of 
Rochester, \. Y.. secretary; 1. ('. White, of Morgantown, 
W. \'a.. treasurer; Joseph Stanley-Brown, of Washington, 
I). ('.. editor ; and B. K. Emerson, of Amherst. Mass.. mid 
J. M. Safford, of Nashville, Tenn., new members of the 
council. 
Seven new fellows were announced as elected, namely, 
H. Foster Bain, of Des Moines. Eowa, assistanl 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 If. 
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. Wood worth, of Cambridge, 
Mass.. instructor in Harvard University. 
The Society now numbers about 230 fellows, and it has losl 
seventeen by death, four of these during the year 1895. 
Memorials of these recently deceased members were presented 
as follows: of. lames I). Dana, by Joseph LeConte (read by 
II. S. Williams ) : of Henry I>. Nason, by T. C. Chamberlin 
(read by Bailey Willis) ; of Albert E. Foote, by George F. 
Ktinz (read by J. F. Kemp); and of Antonio del Castillo, by 
Kzequiel Ordonez, (read by secretary Eairchild.) 
The committee on photographs reported 203 additions dur- 
ing the year. The total collection owned by the Society and 
exhibited at this meeting numbers L283. This committee 
solicits donations, which may be sent to the chairman, Dr. 
George P. Merrill, of the U. S. National Museum. Washing- 
ton, I). ('. 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 i- 
urged, should lie read and discussed in Section E (Geology 
and Geography) of the Association, but they may be accepted 
for printing in tin 1 Bulletin of the Society. Much attention 
