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3. In order to obtain the right to vote or hold office in any of the associate 

 societies thus affiliated, or to receive their publications, members of the Academy 

 must be elected by such society and pay its annual dues as well as those of the 

 Academy, but all other privileges of membership would be included in the Academy's 

 annual dues, 



4. The New York Academy of Sciences to encourage the work of societies thus 

 affiliated with it by furnishing means for paying distinguished lecturers, by awarding 

 grants to aid scientific investigation by their members, by providing facilities for 

 their meetings at the present place of the Academy and in other ways that may 

 become practicable. 



5. Each society thus affiliated with the New York Academy of Sciences to have 

 the right to delegate one of its members to the Council of the Academy, this delegate 

 being selected from such members of the society as are also members of the Academy, 

 or made so by his society's paying his dues while a delegate. 



6. Societies thus affiliated may, at their option, indicate on their publications 

 their affiliation with the New York Academy of Sciences. 



7. Notices of all meetings or other functions of the Academy and of its sections 

 and of the affiliated societies to be mailed weekly by the Secretary of the Academy 

 to all members and associate members without charge to any affiliated society. 



8. Lists of members and associate members of the Academy and of its affiliated 

 societies to be printed annually by the Academy and distributed to all members and 

 associate m.embers without charge to any affiliated society. 



9. Any affiliated society may withdraw from this affiliation, by a majority 

 vote of its members, at a meeting called for this purpose, to take efifect three months 

 after official notice of such action has been filed with the Secretary of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences. 



10. Such an alliance would render the Council of the Scientific Alliance an 

 unnecessary organization, and its powers and functions might be merged in the 

 Council of the New York Academy of Sciences under existing laws. 



It was voted that the report be approved. 



The memorial notice of the late William Walter Jefferis, prepared by 

 Mr. L. P. Gratacap, was then read as follows: 



William Walter JefTeris was bom at West Chester, Chester Co., Pa., on the twelfth 

 of January, 1820. He was a son of Horatio To^\Tisend, and Hannah Paul Jefferis. 

 He received his education in the West Chester Academy under Jonathan Ganse, 

 a teacher distinguished in his day for erudition and discipline. He evinced at a 

 very early age an unusual interest in minerals and as a boy gathered crystals as they 

 were occasionally dislodged from the paving blocks of West Chester. This curiosity 

 ripened into a confirmed attachment to mineralogy which, however, was shared by 

 an enthusiastic admiration for flowers and botany. In both of these branches of 

 science he became a diligent collector, though his name is universally identified A\-ith 

 the former. 



The lectures in 1835 of Professor Josiah Holbrook communicated a new ardor 

 to the young student; his enthusiasm became contagious; and soon a group of young 

 people, among whom JefTeris and William D. Hartman, afterwards known as an 

 excellent conchologist, were the leaders, were engaged in scouring the surrounding 



