112 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [APR. 6,. 
The following recommendations of the Councit (March 26th) 
were approved, and the member duly elected. 
I. The report of the Conference Committee on the advisabil- 
ity of closer union with the other scientific societies of New 
York City : 
CONFERENCE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SCIENTIFIC ASSO- 
CIATIONS. 
Meeting of March 11th, 1891, American Museum of Natural History. 
The Council of the New York Academy of Sciences having by 
resolution approved the report of a committee recommending a 
conference of representatives of the several scientific societies of 
New York, and the Secretary of the Academy having notified 
the secretaries of the other scientific societies of the action, and 
at the same time requesting the appointment of two delegates 
from each, a conference of these delegates, called by the Com- 
~ mittee of the Council of the Academy of Sciences, was held at 
the American Museum of Natural History on Wednesday eve- 
ning, March 11th, 1891. 
The delegates appointed from each society were as follows: 
From the New York Academy of Sciences: Mr. C. F. Cox, 
Dr. N. L. Britton. 
From the Torrey Botanical Club: Dr. H. H. Rusby, Dr. 
Thomas Morong. 
From the New York Microscopical Society: Rev. J. L. Za- 
briskie, Prof. J. D. Hyatt. 
From the Linnean Society of New York: Prof. J. A. Al- 
len, Mr. G. B. Sennett. 
From the Archeological Institute of America, New York 
branch; Prof. Allan Marquand, Mr. Russell Sturgis. 
From the New York Mathematical Society: Dr. Emory 
McClintock ; Dr. Thomas S. Fiske. 
From the New York Mineralogical Club: Dr. EH. 8. F. Ar- 
nold, Mr. W. B. Schoonmaker. 
The following delegates attended: Dr. Emory McClintock, 
Prof. J. A. Allen, Prof. J. D. Hyatt, Mr. C. F. Cox, Dr. H. 
S. F. Arnold, Mr. W. B. Schoonmaker, Dr. N. L. Britton. 
Dr. Britton was elected Secretary of the Conference. 
After an extended discussion of the means which might be 
taken to affiliate the several societies for mutual benefit and sup- 
port, and to stimulate the progress of science in the city, it was 
unanimously resolved to submit the following recommendations 
to the societies : 
1. The formation of a permanent organization, to be com- 
