X MINUTES. 



A'lorning Session — lo o'clock. 

 William B. Scott, Sc.D., LL.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Dr. W. F. Durand, of Leland Stanford University, California, 

 and Mr. Herbert E. Ives, of Philadelphia, newly elected members, 

 subscribed the Laws and were admitted into the Society. 

 The following papers were read : 



" Biochemical Studies of the Pitcher Liquid of Nepenthes," by 

 Joseph S. Hepburn, M.S., Ph.D. (Introduced by Prof. 

 Harry F. Keller.) 



" The National Research Council and Its Opportunities in the 

 Field of Chemistry," by Marston T. Bogert, Ph.B., LL.D.. 

 Professor of Organic Chemistry, Columbia University. 



" The South American Indian in His Relation to Geographic 

 Environment," by William Curtis Farabee, A.M., Ph.D., 

 Curator of American Section of Museum, University of 

 Pennsylvania. (Introduced by Mr. Henry G. Bryant.) 



" Inter-relations of the Fossil Fuels," by J. J. Stevenson, Ph.D., 

 LL.D., Emeritus Professor of Geology, New York Uni- 

 versity. 



"The Distribution of Land and Water on the Earth," by Harry 

 Fielding Reid, Ph.D., Professor of Dynamic Geology and 

 Geography, Johns Hopkins University. 



"Uplifted and Dissected Atolls in Fiji" (Illustrated), by 

 William Morris Davis, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Geol- 

 ogy, Harvard University. 



" The Slides on the Panama Canal," by George W. Goethals, 

 LL.D., Maj.-Gen. U. S. A., Late Chief Engineer, Panama 

 Canal. 



" Application of Polarized Light to Study of Ores and Metals," 

 by Frederick E. Wright, Ph.D., of Geophysical Laboratory 

 of Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



" Astrapotheria," by William B. Scott, Sc.D., LL.D., Professor 

 of Geology, Princeton University. 



" Diatryma, a Gigantic Eocene Bird," by William Diller 

 Matthew, A.M., Ph.D., Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, 

 American Museum of Natural History, New York. (Intro- 



