456 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



ADJOURNED BUSINESS MEETING. 



January 13, 1908. 



By adjournment from January 6, 1908, the Academy met at 8:15 P. M. 

 at the American Museum of Natural History, President Cox presiding. 



The minutes of the regular meetings of December 2, 1907, and January 6, 

 1908, were read and approved. 



The following candidates for election to Active Membership in the 

 Academy, recommended by Council, were duly elected: 



Leo H. Baekeland, Ph.D., Yonkers-on-Hudson, N. Y., 



Mrs. Chester Griswold, 23 West 48th St., 



Robert H. Lowie, Ph.D., American Museum of Natural History, 



Charles Louis Pollard, A. M., New Brighton, S. I., 



Charles St. John Warner, 29 Broadway. 



The Recording Secretary then reported the following deaths among the 

 membership of the Academy: 



Lord Kelvin, an Honorary Member since 1876, 

 Rev. M. E. Dwight, an Active Member since 1905, 

 T. J. Hurley, an Active Member since 1907, 

 Wm. H. S. Wood, an Active Member since 1885. 



The Recording Secretary then read the following communication: 



"Notice is hereby given in pursuance of Section 5 of Chapter XI of 

 the By-laws of the Academy that the undersigned propose an amend- 

 ment to Chapter VI, Section 3 of the said By-laws by the addition thereto, 

 at the end thereof, of the following w^ords: and any Active Member or 

 Fellow who has paid annual dues for twenty-five years or more may, wpon 

 his written request, he viade a life member and be exempt from further 

 payment of dues." 

 (Signed). 



C. F. Cox, 

 N. L. Britton, 

 E. O. Hovey. 



The above amendment to the By-laws will be acted upon at the next 

 business meeting of the Academy. 

 The Academy then adjourned. 



Edmund Otis Hovey, 



Recording Secretary, 



