RECORDS OF MEETINGS OF 1907 359 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



December 2, 1907. 



The Academy met at 8: 25 P. M. at the American Museum of Natural 

 History, President Britton presiding. 



The minutes of the regular meeting of 4 November were read and 

 approved. 



The following candidates for election as Active Members, recommended 

 by the Council, were duly elected: 



Gano Dimn, 115 West 71st Street, 



Charles P. Berkey, Columbia University, 



Samuel H. Bishop, 500 West 122nd Street, 



Frederick ]M. Pedersen, 452 West 144th Street. 



The Recording Secretary gave notice of the Annual Meeting of the 

 Academy to be held at the Hotel Endicott at 7 P. M., Monday, 16 Decem- 

 ber. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



Edmund Otis Hovey, 



Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 

 December 2, 1908. 



Section met at 8:40 P. M., Professor J. F. Kemp presiding, in the 

 absence of Vice-President Grabau. 



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

 The following program was then offered: 



C. N. Fenner, Notes on the Geology of the First Watchung Trap 



Sheet. 

 A. W. Grabau, Preglacial Drainage in Central New York. 



Summary of Papers. 



Mr. Fenner specially discussed in his paper the features indicative of 

 physiographic conditions at the time of the trap extrusions in the New 

 Jersey area. Inquiry was made into the conditions of deposition of the 

 Newark beds immediately underlying the First Watchung trap. Many 



