TRANSACTIONS 
OF THE 
NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
October 3, 1887. 
REGULAR BusiINEss MEETING. 
Vice-President, Pror. W. P. TRowBrrp@s, in the chair. 
Twenty-one persons present. 
The SECRETARY presented to the Library of the Academy a 
scrap-book filled with mutter relating to the meeting of the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science, held in 
New York in August. 
Pror. D. 8. MARTIN made a statement, in reply to inquiry, 
concerning the proposed monument to J. J. AUDUBON, which 
matter was broached at the special meeting of the Academy held 
August 15th. A motion was presented to appoint a committee to 
solicit and receive subscriptions for a monument te be erected 
over the remains of Audubonin Trinity Cemetery. The motion 
being adopted, the Chair appointed as such committee Pror. 
THomAs EKateston, Pror. D. S. Martin, and Dr. N. L. 
BRITTON. 
The Chair read an announcement of the death of SPENCER 
FULLERTON Batrp, an Honorary Member of the Academy, 
and spoke, from personal acquaintance, of the noble qualities of 
