RECORDS OF MEETINGS OF 1908 495 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



November 2, 1908. 



The Academy met at 8:15 P. M. at the American Museum of Natural 

 History, President Cox presiding. 



The minutes of the regular meeting of 5 October were read and approved. 

 Council reported the death of the following members of the Academy : 



Morgan Dix, Active Member for 31 years, 

 James D. Hague, Active Member for 1 year, 

 Haslett McKim, Active Member for 11 vears. 



The Recording Secretary then read a letter from Professor H. H. Rusby, 

 recommending that the Academy devote part of its meetings during the 

 coming year to debating the essential principles espoused by Darwin and the 

 data on which he based them. The Academy showed by the remarks of 

 members that Professor Rusby's recommendations were received with 

 approval. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



Edmund Otis Hovey, 



Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 



November 2, 1908. 



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



Sixty persons were present. 



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



The chairman announced that it would be necessary to nominate at this 

 meeting both a chairman and a secretary of the Section, — the chairman to be 

 also one of the Vice-Presidents of the Academy. 



Pi The name of Professor J. J. Stevenson was proposed by members J. F. 

 Kemp and E. O. Hovey for the office of Chairman of the Section. A 

 motion that the Secretary should cast the ballot of the Section for Professor 

 Stevenson was carried. After the ballot was cast, Professor Stevenson was 

 declared duly nominated. 



W;- Dr. Charles P. Berkey was then renominated to the office of Secretary 

 of the Section and was duly elected. 



