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STATED MEETING. 
April 22d, 1895. 
The Academy met with Vice-president Stevenson in the chair, 
twenty persons present. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 
The following persons were nominated for resident member- 
ship: R. A. Anthony, E. N. Dickerson and Henry Holt, and they 
were referred to the Council in the regular course. 
Professor Martin moved that a committee be appointed to pre- 
pare a memorial minute regarding the recent death of Professor 
J. D. Dana, Honorary Member. The motion was carried and 
_ Messrs. Martin, Stevenson and Kemp were appointed. 
The Section of Geology and Mineralogy then organized, and 
after a few introductory remarks by the Secretary, the follow- 
ing papers were presented : 
W. D. Matthew, Sketch of the Igneous intrusions of New 
Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. T. G. White, 
Brief Outline of the Igneous Rocks along the Sea-coast of 
Maine and Massachusetts. J. F. Kemp, Sketch of the Igneous 
Rocks in the Province of Quebec, and the States of New York, 
Vermont, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and to the South. 
The papers were designed to emphasize the igneons phe- 
nomena, especially of Paleozoic and later date and to show 
their frequency and importance along the Atlantic States and 
Provinces. 
In discussion, Dr. E. O. Hovey reviewed the diabases and 
aud granites of Connecticut, and the chairman mentioned his 
discovery of several boulders of feldspar-porphyry in a Che- 
mung conglomerate of Fayette county, Penn., which indicated 
the presence of an undiscovered dike in western Pennsylvania. 
The Academy then adjourned. 
J. F. Kemp, 
Secretary. 
