RECORDS OF MEETINGS 189 



Associate Membership. 



C. T. Kirk, Normal College, 



Miss Evangeline Moon, Normal College. 



The Eeeording Secretary then reported the following deaths : 



Sir Francis Galton, an Honorary Member for 1 3 7 ear, 

 Hon. .T. Hampden Robb, an Active Member for 13 years. 

 J. J. Higginson, an Honorary Member for 5 years. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



Edmund Otis Hovey. 



Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 

 6 February, 1911. 



Section was called to order at S:25 p. m.. Vice-President Kunz pre- 

 siding. About 60 members and others were in attendance. 



The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. 



A communication was presented from Prof. D. S. Martin on the nam- 

 ing of two mineral varieties. The first is a variety of muscovite, for 

 which the name Schernikite is proposed. The other is a variety of meso- 

 lite. for which the name Winehellite is suggested. 



The following titles were presented: 



A. A. Julien, The Evidence from the Palisades on the Genesis oe 

 Avtigorite (By title). 



G.S.Rogers, Geology of the Cortlandt Series \\n its Emery De- 

 posits (By title). 



Summary of Paper. 



Dr. Martin, in his paper, ^aid : At the meeting of the New York Mine- 

 ralogical Club, held at the American Museum of Natural History on 

 December 14th, 1910. I exhibited certain minerals and proposed therefor 

 two varietal names as follows : 



(1) The fibro-prismatic pink variety of muscovite, identified as such 

 in composition by Bowman in the Mineralogical Magazine in 1902 but so 

 remarkably different in its physical characters and entire "habit" that it 

 is certainly deserving of a varietal name. The mineral occurs freely and 

 almost exclusively at Haddam Pock. Conn., intergrown with ordinary 

 muscovite and lepidolite. in the albitic dyke. As the specimens described 

 and identified by Bowman formed a part of a series of Haddam Rock 

 minerals presented to Oxford University by a member and ex-president 



