124 MINUTES OF MKETIXGS. 



April i, 1909. — Regular business meeting, with the Pres- 

 ident, T. Chalkley Palmer, in the chair. Reports of Cura- 

 tors, Committees and Officers. The regular nomination of 

 officers was held, and the following were named : -^ 



President, T. Chalkley Palmer 

 First Vice President, Henry L. Broomall 

 Second Vice President, Charles Potts 

 Secretary, B. M. Underhill, V. M. D. 

 Treasnrer, Carolns iM. Broomall 

 Lfibrarian, Henrietta K. Broomall 



Boanl of Cnrators, 



p;di(ar T. Miller, Homer K. Hoopes and 



the Officers 



On motion it was agreed that the Publication Committee be 

 given the power to add two more members to its body, 

 selected from the membership of the Institute. " Descriptive 

 Mineralogy," by Dana and Brush, and " Familiar Quota- 

 tions," by Bartlett, which had been in bad condition, were 

 reported rebound and again available for reference. The fol- 

 lowing additions to the Librarj^ were announced: — "The 

 Guadalupian Fauna," by Girtz ; "Topographic Maps," b}' 

 Salisbury and Atwood. A committee was appointed to 

 amend the article of the Constitution relating to membership 

 and to consider the creation of a grade of membership to be 

 known as " Fellowship." Under scientific communications 

 C. Edgar Ogden exhibited some specimens from a shell 

 mound at Tampa Bay, Florida, consisting of flints in chalk 

 formation and silicified coral. Mr. Ogden also exhibited a 

 specimen of mistletoe, which he had found growing upon an 

 oak tree, which latter was apparently dying from the effects of 

 the parasite. Albert S. Barker showed, under the microscope, 

 some marl from Jamaica, also some Spirogyra in conjtigation. 

 He called attention to the general statement in books that 

 conjugation takes place only in the Spring, and then ouh* in 

 those filaments of a brown or yellow color. The filaments 

 here shown, however, were green, and had been gathered in 

 September. Meeting adjotirned. 



