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Professor Charles A. Young, an Honorary Member for 30 years, 

 Morris K. Jesup, an Active Member for 15 years, 

 Professor William Stratford, an Active Member for 13 years and 

 for some time Corresponding Secretary. 



Council recommended the following minute with reference to Mr. Jesup : 



In recognition of the great services rendered to Natural Science in this city by 

 the late Morris K. Jesup, the New York Academy of Sciences adopts the following 

 minute : 



Mr. Jesup has been a member of the Academy since 1893. He has been much 

 interested in its welfare, and was foremost in welcoming it to the American Museum 

 of Natural History, where its meetings have been held since 1903, where its library 

 is deposited, and where its present efficiency as a scientific association of broad scope 

 and influence has been developed. 



As president of the Board of Trustees of the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, he has been indefatigable in building up the resources and collections of the 

 Museum and in establishing it as one of the great institutions of its kind in the world. 



His influence on the development of Science in New York has been most benefi- 

 cent; the Academy deeply deplores his loss. 



In accordance with the notice given at the business meeting of 13 January, 

 1908, the following amendment to the By-laws of the Academy was proposed: 



Add to Chapter VI, Section 3, of the By-laws of the Academy, at the 

 end thereof, the following words: and any Active Member or Fellow 

 ivlio has jjaid annual daws for twenty-five years or more may, upon his 

 written request, be made a life member and be exempt from further pay- 

 ment of dues. 



On motion, the amendment was unanimously adopted, a quorum of 

 members of the Academy being present. 

 The Academy then adjourned. 



Edmund Otis Hovey, 



Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 



February 3, 1908. 



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



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



Sixty persons were present. 



