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thing in meteorology; chemical analysis of soils, rocks, and 
water; exhaustive study of our limestones, which are full of in- 
teresting problems; our mineralogy, with a view to furnishing a 
successor to the Solvay Process Company when it follows the 
salt business in exit; a further campaign in botany; a study of the 
fungi, liverworts, and algae, and continued research in the field 
of insect life, which is vast and almost unexplored. 
The report of the council recommended the election of Mrs. 
M. Bb. Ackerman and Dr. I. H. Levy to active membership, and 
Miss Ada A. Harris to associate membership. 
The report was adopted and the members elected by formal 
ballot. 
FEBRUARY 24, 1808. 
A special lecture was given on this date by Dr. Ralph §. 
Tarr of Cornell entitled : 
Ae TRIP? TO GREENLARD: 
The lecture was illustrated with numerous lantern slides 
and described the trip with the “ Hope”’, which went to relieve 
Explorer R. E. Perry in 1896. The Cornell party were left at 
Greenland while the Hope proceeded farther north, and the study 
of the glaciers there furnished material for the lecture. 
MarcH 18, 1808. 
NINETEENTH REGULAR MEETING. 
The president, Dr. C. W. Harcrrt, in the chair. 
Thirty-eight persons present. 
The lecture committee reported receipts amounting to 
$18.20. 
