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Announcement was then made of the courses of lectures on Physiography, 

 to be given at Columbia University by Professor Penck of Berlin, beginning 

 Wednesday, November 4, 1908. 



The following program was then offered: 



Edmund Otis Hovey, A Contribution to the History of Mt. Peli^, 



Martinique. 



Summary of Paper. 



Dr. Hovey described, with the aid of many lantern slides, the conditions 

 on and near Mt. Pele during the visits of the author in May-July, 1902, 

 February-April, 1903, and April-May, 1908, and illustrated particularly 

 the devastation wrought by the early eruptions, the disposition and dis- 

 tribution of material thrown out by the volcano, the building up of the spine 

 of 1902-1903 and its subsequent destruction, the advance of erosion since 

 the cessation of eruptions and the restoration of vegetation in St. Pierre and 

 upon the flanks of the mountain. The paper also described the area of 

 fumaroles in the valley of the Riviere Claire and gave the arguments for the 

 probability of these being true fumaroles. Temperature observations were 

 made also in the great fissures of the new cone, where, by means of an 

 electric pyrometer, temperatures as high as 515° C. (959° F.) were obtained. 



The Section then adjourned. 



Charles P. Berkey, 



Secretary. 



SECTION OF BIOLOGY. 



November 9, 1908. 



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



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



The following program was then offered : 



Bamum Brown, Paleontological Explorations of the American 



Museum During the Summer of 1908. 



Raymond C. Osbum, Collecting Bryozoa at the Tortugas and Beau- 

 fort Stations. 



Frank M. Chapman, Notes on the Fish Hawk. 



