RECORDS OF MEETINGS OF 1907 345 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



October 7, 1907. 



The Academy met at 9 : 25 P. M. at the American Museum of Natural 

 History, Vice-President Grabau presiding in the absence of President 

 Britton. 



The minutes of the regular meeting of 6 May and the adjourned meeting 

 of 27 May were read and approved. 



The Executive Committee reported that by virtue of authority given 

 27 May the following candidates had been elected since that date : 



Mrs. P. Hackley Barhydt, 40 East 70th Street, 



James D. Foot, I^ye> N. Y., 



Walter J. Hewlett, 51 Wall Street, 



Charles Kohlman, 1007 INIadison Avenue, 



Eugene H. Paddock, 149 West 72nd Street, 

 Mrs. Florence N. C. Nimick, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, 



William H. Taylor, The Ansonia Hotel. 



The report was approved. 



Council reported the following nomination for Active Membership 

 J. de Lagerberg, 70 Park Ave., Passaic, N. J. 



On motion the candidate was unanimously elected. 

 The Recording Secretary reported the death of 



Samuel Sloan, Patron, 



C. B. Warring, Corresponding Member, and 



Giuseppe Grattarola, Corresponding Member. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



Edmund Otis Hovey, 



Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF BIOIOGY. 

 October 14, 1907. 



Section met at 8: 15 P. M., Vice-President Crampton presiding. 



The minutes of the last meeting of the Section were read and approved. 



The following program was then offered : 



