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President Bolton in the cbair, and about four hundred per- 

 sons present. 



Mr. Morris K. Jesitp, President of the Board of Trustees of 

 the American Museum of Natural History, delivered an address 

 of welcome to the Academy. 



Professor Thomas Egleston, Chairman of the Audubon 

 Monument Committee, gave an account of the inception and 

 progress of the movement for the erection of a monument to 

 Audubon. 



President Bolton read several unpublished letters of Au- 

 dubon. 



Mr. D. G. Elliot delivered an address entitled "The Life 

 and Services of John James Audubon." 



The report of the Audubon Monument Committee including 

 addresses delivered at Trinity Cemetery and those delivered at 

 this meeting will be presented to the Academy at a latter date 

 and published in the Transactions. 



May 1, 1893. 



Eegular Business Meeting. 



President Bolton in the chair and twenty-eight persons 

 present. 



Mr. Geo. H. Knight, of New York City, was elected a 

 Resident Member. 



SECTION OF ASTRONOMY AND PHYSICS. 



Prof. E. E. Barnard, of the Lick Observatory, described some 

 of his observations on the transparency of the "crape ring" of 

 Saturn and the surface markings of Jupiter, Prof. Barnakd also 

 showed some photographs of recent remarkable comets taken 

 at the Lick Observatory. 



