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o'clock, the reception was limited to members of the Academ}-. 

 On Tuesda}', April 6tli, from three to five o'clock p. m. pro- 

 fessors and students from the colleges of the city and teachers 

 and scholars from the other educational institutions were ad- 

 mitted. From eight to eleven o'clock in the evening the ex- 

 hibition was thrown open to members of the Academy and 

 their friends. In all, about 4,000 persons were present, and 

 the exhibition proved to be the most successful in the history 

 of the Academy, During the second evening, addresses were 

 made bj' President J. J. Stevenson of the Academy, Mr. Morris 

 K. Jesup, of the American Museum, and Mr. Xikola Tesla. 



Regular Business Meeting. 

 April 12th, 1897. 



The Academ}' was called to order by President Stevenson. 

 Twenty persons were present. 



The minutes of the last business meeting were read and ap- 

 proved. 



The following persons were nominated as resident members : 



A. A. Anderson, 93 Fifth Ave. ; Gary X. Calkins, The Beres- 

 ford (81st West); W. H. Daily, Brown Palace Hotel, Den- 

 ver, Colo.; W. B. Devereux, Hotel San Remo ; Robert B. Flem- 

 ming, 76 Montgomer}' St., Jersey' City ; Frederic Gallatin, 670 

 Fifth Ave. ; Max Heller, 76 E. 90th St. ; Alexander Maitland, 

 45 Broadway; T. Commerford Martin, The Monterey, 114 St. 

 and Morningside Park ; Geo. F. Miller, 811 Madison Ave.; Frank 

 Russak, 46 Exchange Place ; Wm. I. Sommerfield, 32 West 13th 

 St. ; C. E. Trippler, 40 West 77th St. ; Alfred A. Whitman, 305 

 W. 78th St. ; Charles T. Wills, 156 Fifth Avenue, City. 



The section of Biology then organized. Professor E. B. Wilson, 

 chairman, presiding. The following papers were read : 

 H. F. Osborn, " Notes on Mammalian Paleontology." 



B. B. Griffin, " Chromatin Reduction in Thallasema and 

 Zirphsea." 



