334 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



SPECIAL JVIEETING. 



April 29, 1907. 



Dr. Tempest Anderson, F. G. S., F. R. G. S., of York, England, delivered 

 a public illustrated lecture on 



"Vesuvius and Its Eruptions." 



President Britton presided, and an audience of 259 persons listened to 

 the lecture. 



Edmund Otis Hovet, 



Recording Secretary. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



May 6, 1907. 



The Academy met at 8 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 as Active Members, recommended 

 by the Council, were duly elected: 



Ralph Lyon, 453 West 24th Street, 



Adolph S. Ochs, New York Times, 



Mrs. Charles Tylor Olmsted, 159 Park Av., Utica, N. Y., 



William Houston Kenyon, 321 West 82nd Street, 



William D. Baldwin, 14 West 68th Street, 



Henry D. Hotchkiss, 315 West 75th Street, 



John A. Fordyce, 8 West 77th Street, 



W. M. Martin, 44 West 40th Street, 



George D. Cross, Bernardsville, N. J., 



Charles E. Diefenthaler, 303 West 91st Street, 



Harry Ingram, 525 Sixth St., Brooklyn, N. Y., 



M. I. Blank, M. D., 42 West 115th Street, 



James D. Hague, 108 East 40th Street, 



William Sturgis Bigelow, 60 Beacon St., Boston, Mass., 



J. W. Leib, Jr., 869 West End Avenue, 



John Rutgers Planten, 44 Eighth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y., 



R. Degener, 44 West 74th Street, 



Thomas Jefferson Hurley, 47 Pierpont St., Brookl}Ti, N. Y. 



