PROCEEDINGS. 
VOLUME I. BROCHURE I. 
APRIL 17, 1896. 
The first regular meeting of the Academy of Science was 
held in the rooms of the Onondaga Historical Association. Mrs. 
L. Leonora Goodrich, chairman of the committee on Natural 
Science of the Historical Association, of which the Academy was 
the outgrowth, presided. Meetings for the purposes of organiz- 
ation had been previously held on March 5, March 10, March 24, 
~ and April 7, and a temporary organization effected. 
Prof. J. A. Dakin delivered a lecture entitled 
THE WARBLERS AND HUMMING BIRDS OF 
ONONDAGA. 
The lecture was illustrated with a large number of speci- 
mens of birds and their nests. In the discussion which followed 
many questions were answered by Prof. Dakin. 
May 15, 1896. 
SECOND REGULAR MEETING. 
Mrs. L. L. Goodrich in the chair. 
Prof. E. N. Pattee spoke of 
mee ANALYSES OF THE GREEN STREET DIKE. 
The rock had been studied in place in the water pipe trenches 
and analyses made of the same in the university laboratory. 
These clearly proved the igneous nature of the rock. The miner- 
