316 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



BUSINESS MEETING. 

 Februaey 4, 1907. 



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

 History, President Britton presiding. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 



The following candidates for election to the Academy, recommended 

 by Coimcil, were duly elected: 



For Active Membership: 



Dr. John B. Smith, State Entomologist, New Brunswick, N. J., 



Dr. William Campbell, Columbia University; 

 For Non-resident Membership: 



Professor Francis B. Sumner, Woods Holl, Mass., 



Professor George I. Finlay, Colorado Springs, Colo.; 

 For Associate Membership: 



Mr. Dwight Northrup, 26 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Coimcil recommended the reelection of the Associate Members carried 

 over from last year. Council reported that the list of delegates to the Coun- 

 cil of the Academy from the Affiliated Societies had been completed, and 

 that a committee representing the Academy and Affiliated Societies had 

 reported an attractive program for the celebration of the two hundredth 

 anniversary of the Swedish naturalist, Carolus Linnajus, 25 May, 1907. 

 On motion, the report of Council was accepted. 



The committee consisting of Messrs. Britton, Kemp, Grabau and Hove}^ 

 which was elected at the last meeting of the Academy to prepare resolutions 

 expressing to Mr. W. P. Letch worth the Academy's appreciation of his gift 

 of the Glen Iris Estate to the State of New York, presented its report that 

 the resolutions had been prepared and forwarded to Mr. Letchworth. 

 The Academy voted to accept the report and place a copy of the resolutions 

 on file. The resolutions are as follows: 



Whereas the New York Academy of Sciences has learned of the 

 generous gift to the State of New York, of a public park known as Glen 

 Iris at Portage, by Mr. William Pryor Letchworth, and its acceptance by 

 the State legislature, under the condition prescribed by Mr. Letchworth 

 that this beautiful reservation be placed in charge of the American Scenic 

 and Historical Preservation Society; 



Resolved that the Academy of Sciences expresses its recognition of 



