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President Boiron in the chair, and about four hundred per- 
sons present. 
Mr. Morris K. Jesup, President of the Board of Trustees of 
the American Museum of Natural History, delivered an address 
of welcome to the Academy. 
Professor Thomas Eaieston, Chairman of the Audubon 
Monument Committee, gave an account of the inception and 
progress of the movement for the erection of a monument to 
Audubon. 
President Botron read several unpublished letters of Au- 
dubon, 
Mr. D. G. Exuiot delivered an address entitled “The Life 
and Services of John James Aupuzoy.’’ 
The report of the Audubon Monument Committee including 
addresses delivered at Trinity Cemetery and those delivered at 
this meeting will be presented to the Academy at a latter date 
and published in the Transactions. 
May 1, 1893. 
Recuiar Business MEetina. 
President Botron in the chair and twenty-eight persons 
present. 
Mr. Geo. H. Kunicut, of New York City, was elected a 
Resident Member. 
SECTION OF ASTRONOMY AND PHYSICS. 
Prof, E. E. Barnarp, of the Lick Observatory, described some 
of his observations on the transparency of the “crape ring”’ of 
Saturn and the surface markings of Jupiter, Prof. Barnarp also 
showed some photographs of recent remarkable comets taken 
at the Lick Observatory. 
