FEB 27 1897 
TRANSACTIONS 
OF THE 
NEw YoRK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
REGULAR Business MEETING. 
October 7th, 1895. 
President REEs in the chair, ten persons present. 
The minutes of the last meeting (June 3, 1895) were read and 
approved. 
Mr. R. E. Dodge, instructor in Geology in the Teachers’ 
College, was nominated for resident membership, and referred 
to the Council. 
There being no regular business, the Secretary made an in- 
formal report of the recent action by the Council in connection 
with the proposed reception next Spring, and in regard to the 
lecture course. 
The various members of the Academy then gave informal 
reports upon the meeting of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science at Springfield, Mass., in August, last ; 
and also upon the proceedings of the affiliated scientific socie- 
ties that met at the same time. 
The Academy then adjourned. 
J. F. Kemp, 
Secretary. 
STATED MEETING. 
October 14th, 1895. 
The ACADEMY met with Prorrssor R. S. Woopwarp, Chair- 
man of the Section of Astronomy and Physics in the chair. 
Twenty-two persons present. 
