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''The New York Academy of Sciences, its Past, its Present and 



ITS Future," 



after which the Academy and guests listened to an address by ]\Ir. 

 Ra3nnond L. Ditmars, Curator of Eeptiles at the New York Zoological 

 Park, on the 



"Book of Nature," 



illustrated. AA'ith some of liis latest motion-picture reels showing various 

 phases of most interesting animal life. 



The Academy then adjourned. Edmund Otis Hovey, 



Recording Secretary. 



REPOET OF THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 



We have lost by death during the past year the following Honorary 

 Members : 



Sir John Murray, elected 1913, died 16 March, 1914, 

 Heinrich Rosenbusch, elected 1887, died 20 January, 1914, 

 August Weissmann, elected 1909, died 6 November, 1914, 



and the following Corresponding Members : 



Theodore Nicholas Gill, elected 1858, died 25 September, 1914, 



Seth E. Meek, elected 1888, died 7 July, 1914, 



Charles Sedgwick Minot, elected 1878, died 19 November, 1914, 



J. Selden Spencer, elected 1890, died .3 December, 1914, 



N. H. Winchell, elected 1898, died 1 May, 1914. 



Two Corresponding Members have been elected Honorary Members. 

 There are at present upon our rolls 47 Honorary Members and 115 

 Corresponding Members. 



Respectfully submitted, Henry E. Crampton, 



Corresponding Secretary. 



REPORT OP THE RECORDING SECRETARY 



During the year 1914, the Academy held 9 business meetings and 27 

 sectional meetings, at which 72 stated papers were presented as follows : 



Section of Geology and Mineralog\% 18 papers; Section of Biology. 

 22 papers; Section of Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry, 7 papers; 

 Section of Anthropology and Psychology, 25 papers. 



Four of the sectional mjeetings were of general character and of par- 



