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the American Folk-lore Society would be held at Columbia 

 College on Friday and Saturday, November 28fch and 29fch, and 

 suggested that the Academy hold a joint meeting with the Folk- 

 lore Society on Friday evening, November 28th. Adopted. 



The following Committee on Eevision of the By-Laws was an- 

 nounced at this meeting : 



H. Carrington Bolton, 

 N. L. Britton, 

 Silas B. Brownell, 

 C. F. Cox, 

 J. S. Newberry. 



November 10th, 1890. 



Stated Meeting. 



The President, Dr. Newberry, in the chair. 



About fifteen persons present. 



The minutes of November 3d were read and approved. 



Dr. Britton made some interesting remarks on some Raritan 

 clays which are slightly ferruginous, possibly not avaihible for 

 high-grade refractory material. The bed is thirty-five feet 

 thick, whitish in color, and contains no fossils. 



Dr. Alexis A. Julien" read the paper announced for the 

 evening, entitled 



on the microbe of phosphorescent wood. 



(Abstract.) 



The phosphorescence of wood has been often supposed to be 

 connected with the green coloring produced by certain fungi, 

 especially Peziza JungermannicB and P. cerugi)iosa. On an ex- 

 amination of a large number of samples of such green decayed 

 wood, collected in the Adirondack Mountains in 1889, not a 

 single specimen was found to be phosphorescent ; and this fact 

 serves in confirmation of the similar conclusion of Ludwig, Zukal, 

 and others. However, I have noticed, in some cases, that the cells 



