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ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Active Members, 19 of whom are Associate Active Members and 122 are 

 Fellows. The election of 9 Fellows is pending. During the year there 

 have been ten deaths and 24 resignations, while 7 Members have been 

 dropped for non-payment of dues. The new Members elected during the 

 year number 58. As the Membership of the Academy a year ago was 

 424, there has been a net gain of 17 during 1906. 



The most noteworthy event during the past year has been the aflSliation 

 with the Academy of the other Societies formerly composing the Scientific 

 Alliance of New York, and the vesting of the functions of the Alliance in 

 the Academy. By the terms of the agreement the Members of the Affiliated 

 Societies become, in addition, Associate Members of the Academy and are 

 to be represented in the Council of the Academy by a Councilor for each 

 Affiliated Society. The Academy agrees to encourage the work of these 

 Societies by maintaining lecture courses, by awarding grants for scientific 

 investigation, by providing facilities for the meetings of the Societies, by 

 announcing in a weekly Bulletin their meetings and other functions and by 

 annually printing and distributing corrected lists of their members. The 

 object of the affiliation is to unify scientific effort and activity in this City. 



Another new development is the establishment of a new class of Mem- 

 bership, — that of Donors. This class is to be composed of persons con- 

 tributing $50.00 or more annually to the general fund of the Academy. 



It is with great regret the Academy records the loss by death of the 

 following Members: 



Miss Harriet Brown Bailey, 



R. Ogden Doremus (Fellow), 



Samuel Keyser, 



S. Nicholson Kane, 



James IMcNaughton, 



Henry E. Taylor, 



Philip Schuyler, 



Walter S. Logan, 



Walter Bryan, 



Respectfully submitted, 



. W. M. Wheeler, 



Recording Secretary. 



