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Academy. It was voted that the following sections be inserted or be amended 

 as read : 



Chapter IV, Section 2. (A new section) 



Chapter IV, Section 3. 



Chapter IV, Section 4. 



Chapter V, Section 1. 



Chapter VI, (Change in title of Chapter) 



Chapter VI, Section 2. (A new section) 



Chapter VI, Section 3. 



It was voted that the Amendment to Chapter XI, Section 3, regarding 

 investments, be laid on the table until the next meeting of the Academy. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



W. M. Wheeler, 

 Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF BIOLOGY. 

 October 1, 1906. 



The Section met at 8:30 P. M., at the American Museum of Natural 

 History. Vice-President Crampton presiding. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting of the Section were read and 

 approved. 



The evening was then devoted to hearing the reports of summer work 

 by members of the Section. 



Professor Britton described his trip to Jamaica to study the flora of the 

 island, in continuation of the work carried on by the New York Botanical 

 Garden in the West Indies for several years. The explorations in Jamaica 

 for the past three years have been carried on through the cooperation of 

 the Department of Gardens and Plantations of the Island, and are not yet 

 by any means complete. The little known regions are dangerous, especially 

 "the Cockpit," a place where Mr. Harris of the Department of Gardens 

 and Plantations obtained most of his 50 or 60 new species. The hills are 

 conical in shape, of limestone roughened by erosion. The rock edges are 

 covered with a great mass of luxuriant vegetation which is often slippery 

 and dangerous. This rough character of the country has prevented culti- 

 vation of this part of the island. 



A subtropical laboratory for the use of students of tropical flora has been 

 established here, and is now in effective cooperation with the Jamaican 

 government. 



