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The Eecording Secretary presented the following overture from the 

 Section of Geology and Mineralogy of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 

 Sciences : 



The officers of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Department of 

 Geology, desire the New York Academy of Sciences to appoint a committee of 

 three to act with a similar committee that has already been appointed by the 

 Department of Geology of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in con- 

 sidering the advisability of some action being taken jointly by the New York 

 Academy of Sciences and the Brooklyn Institute and such other scientific 

 bodies as they can associate with them to induce the New York State officials 

 to prepare and publish a series of volumes that shall comprise a complete 

 treatise on the geology of the State of New York, as developed by public re- 

 searches, together with a bibliography inclusive of all available records to date. 

 As the geology of the State of New York is scattered through an immense 

 number of pamphlets and papers, it is thought desirable that the whole matter 

 should be worked up and digested into a complete treatise. 



On motion, the President was authorized and requested to appoint a 

 committee of three, including himself as chairman, to confer with the 

 similar committee from the Brooklyn Institute and report back to the 

 Academy. The committee then was constructed as follows : Messrs. 

 James F. Kemp, J. J. Stevenson and E. 0. Hovey. 

 The Academy then adjourned. 



Edmund Otis Hovey, 



Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINEEALOGY. 

 December 5, 1910. 



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

 siding. 



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



The Secretary presented the application of Mr. J. E. Hyde for a grant 

 from the funds of the Academy in support of certain field investigations 

 of a physiographic nature. To questions, Mr. Hyde replied that the re- 

 sults were to be published in the Annals of the Academy. A motion was 

 passed, approving the application for the sum of $100.00. This recom- 

 mendation was transmitted with the original application to the Council 

 of the Academy. 



The following programme was then offered : 



J. E. Hyde and Charles P. Berkey, Orighstal Ice Structures Indi- 

 cated BY Corresponding Structures in Unconsolidated Sands 

 AND Gravels of the Drift on Manhattan Island. 



J. E. Woodman, Structure of the Meguma Series of Nova Scotia. 



