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A set of memorial resolutions on the death of Prof. Edward 
D. Cope, president of the American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, was then offered by President Hargitt, and read 
by the secretary. 
The resolutions were unanimously adopted as the sentiment 
of the society. 
Dr. Eugene Haanel gave a semi-popular lecture on 
aE XRAY: 
May 21, 1897. 
ELEVENTH REGULAR MEETING. 
' The president, Dr. C. W. Harceirt, in the chair. 
About fifty persons present. 
_ The report of the council recommended : 
(1) The election of Miss Belle Douglass, Miss Gertrude 
Moorehouse, Mr. E. A. Winchell, and Mr. Wardner Hall as 
associate members. 
(2) The payment of certain bills amounting to $9.20. 
The report was adopted, the bills ordered paid, and the 
candidates elected by formal ballot. 
A memorial of Edson S. Bastin was then read by Mrs. L. L. 
Goodrich, and the sympathy of the academy extended to his 
widow. 
Prof. John D. Wilson spoke about 
THE GONIATITE LIMESTONE. 
This formation is best studied on the road east of Jamesville, 
where some twenty feet of dark fragile Marcellus shale separates 
it from the underlying Corniferous Limestone. The Goniatite 
Limestone is less than three feet thick at this locality, and has 
two horizontal seams, one six inches from the top, and the other 
