186 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



SECTION OP GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 

 9 January, 1911. 



Section was called to order at 8:25 p. m., Vice-President George P. 

 Kunz presiding. About 150 members and visitors were present. 



The reading of the minutes was dispensed with, and there being no 

 special business requiring immediate attention, the meeting was at once 

 turned over to the following lecturer: 



Frank D. Adams, Results of Experiments on the Behavior of 



Rocks under Pressure. 



The Chairman introduced Professor Adams, Dean of Applied Science 

 and Professor of Geology in McGill University and a corresponding 

 member of the Academy, who gave a brief resume of earlier work and 

 explained the objects sought and difficulties encountered and a most 

 interesting and instructive account of the methods and results of his own 

 experiments. At the close of the lecture, Mr. Chambers asked whether 

 any experiments had been made in the presence of water. Professor 

 Adams replied that only one sample had been tested in this manner. 



The Academy tendered a vote of thanks to Professor Adams for his 

 lecture. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



Charles P. Berkey, 



Secretary. 



SECTION OF BIOLOGY. 



16 January, 1911. 



Section met at 8:15 p. m., Vice-President Frederic A. Lucas presiding. 

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

 The following programme was then offered : 



C. Stuart Gager, Cryptomeric Inheritance in Onagra. 

 Roy C. Andrews, Field Notes on Japanese Whales. 



Summary of Papers. 



Dr. Gager made reference to an abnormal plant of Onagra biennis that 

 appeared in a pedigreed culture following exposure to radium rays of 

 the ovule employed in producing the plant. The plant possessed two 

 primary shoot-systems (rosettes and subsequent cauline stems) of equiva- 

 lent value but manifesting entirely unlike morphological characters. 



