206 RECORDS. 



The following candidates for active membership, approved 

 by the Council, were duly elected : 



Oswald Speir, 310 West 94th Street. 



Emil Heuel, M.D., i West 94th Street. 



On recommendation of the Council, the following Active 

 Member was elected a Fellow : 



Ralph W. Tower. 



Miscellaneous Business. 



The notice of the Academy was called to the death of Dr. 

 H. Carrington Bolton, a former President of the Academy, by 

 Professor D. S. Martin, with a statement that it would be 

 eminently fitting for the Academy to take formal action in 

 recognition of the long services of Dr. Bolton to the Academy. 

 It was voted that the Chairman appoint a Committee of three 

 to prepare a suitable minute relating to Dr. Bolton's death. 

 The Chairman appointed D. S. Martin, N. L. Britton, and E. 

 B. Wilson. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



H. E. Crampton, 

 Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF BIOLOGY. 

 December 7, 1903. 



The December meeting was held on the seventh of the month, 

 Professor Bashford Dean presiding. Professor Wilson declined 

 the nomination for the vice -presidency and chairmanship of the 

 Section which was made at the November meeting ; and Pro- 

 fessor L. M. Underwood was by unamious vote nominated as 

 the candidate from the Section to be presented at the annual 

 meeting for election of officers of the Academy. 



The following scientific program was presented : 



E. B. Wilson, An Experimental Study of the Germ- 

 Regions in the Molluscan Egg. 



A. G. Mayer, The Coral Reefs of the Bahamas 

 (illustrated). 



