Trans. N. Y. Ac. Set. 24 Nov. 6, 



November 6. 



SECTION OF GEOLOGY. 



The President, Dr. J. S. Newberry, in the Chair. 



Thirty-six persons present. 



The following persons were elected as Resident Members : 

 E. L. Snow, J. McDonald, 



N. A. Darton, C. E. Pellew; 



and, as Corresponding Members : 



H. A. Alfred Nichols, of Dominica, W. I. 



F. W. Stoebner, of State Normal School at Westfield, Mass. 



The following resolutions were passed by unanimous vote: 



Resolved, That authors of papers offered for reading before the 

 Academy be earnestly invited to present them previously in full, or 

 in satisfactory abstract ; and that, except by vote of Council, prefer- 

 ence shall always be given by the Committee on Papers to those 

 which shall be so presented in writing. 



Resolved, That all addresses or remarks before any meeting of 

 the Academy, on scientific subjects or on business, which may not 

 have been previously accepted and announced on the weekly card, 

 shall be Hmited (with the exception of the Reports of Council, 

 Officers or Committees) to five minutes, unless by special vote and 

 permission of the Academy ; and they must at any time be discon- 

 tinued at the request of the Chairman, whenever in his judgment 

 they are not pertinent to the subject before the Academy. 



A communication was received from Jas. C. Cox, M. D., Presi- 

 dent of the Linnean Society of Sydney, New South Wales, 

 announcing the entire destruction by fire, on September 22, of all 

 its property — library, correspondence, records, instruments, and 

 collections — in the burning of the Garden Palace, a loss estimated 

 in money at ;^3,ooo. On motion, it was resolved to send an 

 expression of the regrets and sympathy of the New York Academy 

 of Sciences and to supply the Linnean Society with as complete a 

 series as possible of the Annals and Transactions of the Academy. 



Mr. G. F. KuNZ remarked on an interesting series of minerals, 

 collected during the past summer by Mr. C. D. Mimms, of Phila- 

 delphia, Jefferson County, N. Y., from a new locality at the village 

 of Fine St. Lawrence County, N. Y., twelve miles from Edwards 

 and forty miles from Philadelphia, N. Y., on the border of the Adi- 

 rondacks. Titanite occurs in very large crystals, only equaled by 

 those of Renfrew, Canada, one group of three crystals measuring 



