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Mr. JeiTeris was three times married, his widow, formerly Mrs. Anna Ehnore, 

 survives him. By his first wife he had four children of whom Mrs. Emma Bogart 

 and Mrs. Ellis Noyes alone are now living, his tw^o sons dying (one by accident) some 

 years ago. He was a man of charming simplicity, earnestness and disinterested 

 attachment to his friends. His passion for minerals was remarkable, and his 

 tenacity of memory of single, extraordinary or rarely beautiful or odd specimens 

 quite wonderful. It is a matter for general congratulation, apart from the extreme 

 satisfaction to his family, that his collection, symptomatic of a very early period in 

 American mineralogical science, is now permanently preserved as his memorial 

 in the great Museum of Pittsburgh. 



L. P. Gratacap, 



Chairman. 



It was voted that the following names, having been approved by the 

 Council, b<» entered on the roll of Active Members : 



James Lane Allen, 66 Fifth Avenue, 



John H. Emanuel, Jr., 304 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, 



W. D. Mann, 309 West 72 Street, 



H. McM. Painter, 62 West 55 Street, 



Eugene H. Porter, 181 West 73 Street, 



Allen Merrill Rogers, 14 West 72 Street, 



Elliott C. Smith, 33 Wall Street, 



John Weir, The Waldorf, 



William Pennington, Paterson, N. J., 



Simon Flexner, M. D. Rockefeller Institute, 66 Street & Av. A. 



President Britton then submitted in writing, as prescribed by the Con- 

 stitution and By-laws, certain amendments to the Constitution and By-laws, 

 to be voted upon at the next Business Meeting. The proposed changes are 

 as follows: 



Amendments to the Constitution. 



Article II. First sentence to read : 



"The Academy shall consist of five classes of members: namely Active Members, 

 Fellows, Associate Members, Corresponding Members and Honorary Members." 



Article IV. First sentence to read : 



"The officers of the Academy shall be a President, as many Vice-Presidents as 

 there are Sections of the Academy, a Corresponding Secretary, a Recording Secre- 

 tary, a Treasurer, a Librarian, an Editor, six elected Councilors and one additional 

 Councilor for each allied society or association." 



Article VI. A new Article to be inserted as "Article VT," to read as follows: 



"Societies organized for the study of any branch of science may become allied 

 with the New York Academy of Sciences by consent of the Council. Members of 

 allied societies may become Active Members of the Academy by paying the Acad- 

 emy's annual fee, but as members of an allied society they shall be Associate Members 



