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RECORDS OF MEETINGS OF 1908 473 



The following candidate for Active Membership, recommended by 

 Council, was duly elected: 



Richard F. Bohler, 115th St. and Amsterdam Ave. 



The Recording Secretary read an application made by Dr. R. H. Lowie 

 for an appropriation of $300 from the Esther Herrman Research Fund, for 

 assistance in carrying out an investigation among the Indians of the north- 

 western portion of Canada. The application had been investigated and 

 approved by Dr. Clark Wissler, Curator of Ethnology at the Museum. 

 Dr. E. O. Hovey, also, applied for an appropriation of $110 from the 

 Esther Herrman Research Fund for the purchase of thermometric instru- 

 ments for use in prosecuting studies of volcanic phenomena in the Lesser 

 Antilles. On motion the requests were referred to Council with approval. 



The Recording Secretary then read letters from Professors James Ward 

 and William Bateson, expressing their appreciation of the honor conferred 

 upon them by their election as Honorary Members of the Academy. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



Edmund Otis Hovey, 



Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 



April 6, 1908. 



The Section held two sessions for the presentation of papers. The 

 first was held at 2 P. M. at Columbia University, with the Department 

 of Geology. The second session, at 8:15 P. M., was held at the American 

 Museum of Natural History. 



By invitation of Dr. A. W. Grabau, Chairman of the Section, Professor 

 J. J. Stevenson presided over the first session. Attendance, 40. 



The following program was then offered: 



George H. Perkins, State Geologist of Vermont, 



The Cambrian Rocks of Vermont. 

 James F. Kemp, Columbia University, 



Recent Advances in our Knowledge of the 

 Magnetite Bodies at Mineville. 

 Edgar T. Wherry, University of Pennsylvania, 



Newark Copper Deposits of Eastern Penn- 

 sylvania. 



