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year. [lis report showed valuable work accomplished on the 
protozoa, mollusca, amphibians, and birds. 
GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 
The report of this section was read by its chairman, Prof. 
P. F. Schneider. It showed that a second species new to science 
had been found in the Goniatite Limestone by Principal J. D. 
Wilson, and the name Thoracoceras Wilsoni has been suggested 
for the same by the State Paleontologist, J. M. Clarke. Another 
important piece of work was that of Dr. S. E. Crane of Onon- 
daga, who sees in the east and west channels of our county (ex- 
tinct watercourses) the key to our complicated surface geology. 
Mr. Charles E. Wheelock has contributed an interesting paper on 
the subject of our pleistocene geology. Two new exposures of 
intrusive dikes have been discovered in this county during the 
year and drawings and descriptions of the same have been made 
and preserved. Full reports on these will be given at some future 
meeting of the academy. 
The election of officers resulted as follows: 
President, Dr. W. M. Beauchamp; vice-president, Charles 
W. Hargitt; secretary, Philip F. Schneider; corresponding secre- 
tary, IT. C. Hopkins; treasurer, Miss L. W. Roberts; librarian, 
Mrs. L. L. Goodrich; councillors for three years, Ernest N. Pat- 
tee, Franklin H. Chase. 
Meeting adjourned. 
NOTES ON THE FOOD HABITS OF BIRDS. 
CuHarues W. Harcirt. 
MARCH 21, 1902. 
Birds have from time immemorial appealed to human obser- 
vation and interest. Their mode of life, grace of form, richness 
and variety of coloration, all having conspired to endear them 
to the lover of nature. From this too, they have probably been 
among the first of a given fauna to enlist critical attention at the 
hand of the scientific observer. Such observations in America 
