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the American Folk-lore Society would be held at Columbia 
College on Friday and Saturday, November 28th and 29th, and 
suggested that the Academy hold a joint meeting with the Folk- 
lore Society on Friday evening, November 28th. Adopted. 
The following Committee on Revision of the By-Laws was an- 
nounced at this meeting : 
H. Carrineton Bouton, 
N. L. Britton, 
Sizas B. BRowNELL, 
OF HeCox, 
J. S. NEWBERRY. 
November 10th, 1890. 
STATED MEETING. 
The President, Dr. NEWBERRY, in the chair. 
About fifteen persons present. 
The minutes of November 3d were read and approved. 
Dr. Brirron made some interesting remarks on some Raritan 
clays which are slightly ferruginous, possibly not available for 
high-grade refractory material. The bed is thirty-five feet 
thick, whitish in color, and contains no fossils. 
Dr. ALEXIS A. JULIEN read the paper announced for the 
evening, entitled 
ON THE MICROBE OF PHOSPHORESCENT WOOD. 
(Abstract.) 
The phosphorescence of wood has been often supposed to be 
connected with the green coloring produced by certain fungi, 
especially Peziza Jungermannie and P. eruginosa. On an ex- 
amination of a large number of samples of such green decayed 
wood, collected in the Adirondack Mountains in 1889, not a 
single specimen was found to be phosphorescent ; and this fact 
serves in confirmation of the similar conclusion of Ludwig, Zukal, 
and others. However, I have noticed, in some cases, that the cells 
