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The following name was then presented for election to Associate Active 

 Membership, having been approved by action of the Council : 



James Howard McGregor, Barnard College. 



On motion, elected by ballot cast by the secretary. 



The Amendment to Chapter XI, Section 3, of the By-laws, regarding 

 investments, as placed on file with the minutes of the meeting held May 7, 

 1906, and laid on the table at the meeting of October 1, 1906, was then 

 presented for the action of the Academy. It was unanimously voted that 

 the section be amended as read. 



The Amendments to the Constitution, as presented with the minutes for 

 May 7, 1906, were then presented for the action of the Academy and were 

 unanimously adopted as read. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



W. M. Wheeler, 

 Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF BIOLOGY. 

 November 5, 1906. 



The Section met at 8:15 P. M., at the American Museum of Natural 

 History, Vice-President Crampton presiding. 



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

 approved. 



The Section then proceeded to the election of its officers .for 1907. 



Prof. Henry E. Crampton was reelected Chairman of the Section and 

 nominated to the Council for reelection as Vice-President of the Academy. 



Prof. M. A. Bigelow was reelected Secretary of the Section. 



The following program was then offered : 



Clinton G. Abbott, Expression of Emotion in Birds as Shown by 



Photography. 

 Henry E. Crampton, A Case of Mutation in Pulmonate Gastropods. 



Summary of Papers. 



Mr. Abbott said that as expression of emotion in the human being and 

 in many animals is evidenced largely by the lines of the mouth and face, 



