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Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee, 37 East 36th Street, 



Dr. L. Schoney, 2460 Seventh Avenue, 



Jefferson Seligman, 1 William Street, 



William Shillaber, 60 Wall Street, 



Louis Morris Starr, 206 Fifth x\venue, 



Edward Steinbrugge, Jr., 29 Broadway, 



J. M. Stettenheim, 127 West 86th Street, 



Theodore N. Vail, 26 Cortlandt Street, 



Frederick K. Vreeland, 80th Street and East End Avenue, 



W. H. Waite, Greystone, Yonkers, iST. Y., 



William I. Walker, 11 Mt. Morris Park West, 



William C. Wood, 51 Madison Avenue, 



The Eecording Secretary then reported the following deaths : 

 Alexander Agassiz, an honorary member for 23 years, 

 Eev. J. L. Zabriskie, an active member for 1 month. 



The death of Professor Agassiz was referred to the Council Committee 

 with the recommendation that a suitable memorial be prepared. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



Edmund Otis Hovey, 



Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 

 April 4, 1910. 



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Section met at 8 :30 p. m., Vice-President George F. Kunz presiding. 



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



The following programme was then offered : 



Dr. George F, Kunz reported a find of labradorite from Sonora, 

 Mexico. The mineral is especially clear, like quartz, and very similar to 

 that reported from time to time from other western localities. Dr. Kunz 

 suggested that Sonora may be the original source of all of them. 



Several photographic prints made by zircon crystals were also exhibited. 



The principal address of the evening was by 



John M. Clarke, The Geological Survey of the State of New 



York. 



Summary of Paper. 



Dr. Clarke called attention to the fact that it was seventy-five years 

 since the tlien Secretary of State, John A. Dix, proposed a plan for a 



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