1892. | NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. é 
Srarep MEETING. 
October 10th, 1892. 
The President, Dr. Hussarp, in the chair. 
Twenty-three persons present. 
There were no minutes to be approved. 
The Secretary read the following proposals for membership. 
Edmund B. Wilson, Columbia College. 
Arthur Willey, Columbia College. 
J. L. Wortman, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 
The proposals were referred to the Council for action. 
The Secretary announced important changes in the pro- 
gramme for October, as follows: 
Ocrozer 17—Biological Section. (Zoology and Botany) 
Basurorp Dean, “Habits of the Venus Fly Trap of North 
Carolina.”’ 
N. L. Brirron, ‘‘Note on a species of Hieracium.’’ 
E. B. Witsoy, ‘‘Artifical production of Twins and Mul- 
tiple Embryos in Amphioxus.”’ 
H. F. Oszorn, ‘“The Cretaceous Mammalia in Am. Mus. 
Nat. Hist.” 
Henry F. Osporn, Chairman. 
Basurorp Dean, Secretary. 
Ocroper 24—Paper by Pror. James F, Kemp, on “A Review 
of the Geological Work hitherto done in the Adiron- 
dacks.”’ 
Ocroser 31—Public Lecture Course. Lecture by Prof. 
Cuartes F. Cuanpier, on ‘‘Aluminium,” illustrated, 
and stated that notice would be sent to all members of the Sci- 
entific Alliance. 
Prof. D. S. Martin read a paper on: 
The Influence upon Science of the Discovery of the New 
World, 
