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The following recommendations of the Council (March 26th) 

 were approved, and the member duly elected. 



I. The rei:)ort of the Conference Committee on the advisabil- 

 ity of closer union with the other scientific societies of New 

 York City : 



CONFERENCE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SCIENTIFIC ASSO- 

 CIATIONS. 



Meeting of March llth, 1891, American 3Iuseum of Natural History. 



The Council of the New York Academy of Sciences having by 

 resolution approved the report of a committee recommending a^ 

 conference of representatives of the several scientific societies of 

 New York, and the Secretary of the Academy having notified 

 the secretaries of the other scientific societies of the action, and 

 at the same time requesting the appointment of two delegates 

 from each, a conference of these delegates, called by the Com- 

 mittee of the Council of the Academy of Sciences, was held at 

 the American Museum of Natural History on Wednesday eve- 

 ning, March llth, 1891. 



The delegates appointed from each society were as follows : 



From the New York Academy of Sciences : Mr. C. F. Cox, 

 Dr. N. L. Britton. 



From the Torrey Botanical Club : Dr. H. H, Eusby, Dr. 

 Thomas Morong. 



From the New York Microscopical Society : Rev. J. L. Za- 

 briskie. Prof. J. D. Hyatt. 



From the Linnaean Society of New York : Prof. J. A. Al- 

 len, Mr. G. B. Sennett. 



From the Arch^ological Institute of America, New York 

 branch : Prof. Allan Marquand, Mr. Russell Sturgis. 



From the New York Mathematical Society : Dr. Emory 

 McClintock ; Dr. Thomas S. Fiske. 



From the New York Mineralogical Club : Dr. E. S. F. Ar- 

 nold, Mr. W. B. Sciioonmaker. 



The following delegates attended : Dr. Emory McClintock, 

 Prof. J. A. Allen, Prof. J. D. Hyatt, Mr. C. F. Cox, Dr. E. 

 S. F. Arnold, Mr. W. B. Schoonmaker, Dr. N. L. Britton. 



Dr. Britton was elected Secretary of the Conference. 



After an extended discussion of the means which might be 

 taken to affiliate the several societies for mutual benefit and sup- 

 port, and to stimulate the progress of science in the city, it was 

 unanimously resolved to submit the following recommendations 

 to the societies : 



1. The formation of a permanent organization, to be com- 



