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JUNE 10, 1889. 
STATED MEETING. 
In Anderson Hall, University of Rochester. 
The President, Pror. H. L. FaiRCHILD, in the chair. 
Forty-six persons present. 
The council report recommended the payment of a bill for Secre- 
tary’s expenses, and the election of JAMES G. GREEN as resident mem. 
ber. The bill was ordered paid, and the candidate elected. 
Dr. MALLORY, representing the special committee appointed to con- 
fer with the University Trustees regarding Section rooms, reported that 
rooms would be assigned. 
Mr. E.uis reported, in behalf of the special committee on furni- 
ture and room expenses, that a settlement had been made with the 
Reynold’s Library Trustees by transferring to them the chairs and fur- 
niture in the former Academy room. 
The candidates for Fellowship nominated by the Council at the 
previous business meeting were elected by formal ballot, and by unani- 
mous vote the Secretary was instructed to add his own name to the list, 
the rules being suspended by unanimous consent. 
It was voted that a special committee should be appointed to pre- 
pare suitable resolutions expressing to the Trustees of the Reynold’s 
Library the gratitude of the Academy for the many favors extended the 
society. 
Dr. LEwis Swirt read a paper on 
THE SOLAR ECLIPSE OF JANUARY, 1889. 
The thanks of the Academy were voted to Dr. Swift. 
Mr. WILLIAM STREETER directed attention to an excellent illus- 
tration of the rapidity of multiplication of certain microscopic plants. 
In the excavation for the Y. M. C. A. building, sixteen feet deep and 
now without drainage, the recent rains caused several inches depth of 
water, Upon the surface of this water a vegetable growth appeared, 
and within twenty-four hours spread over the whole surface. He had 
not yet been able to identify the species. 
The PRESIDENT read a short passage from an article by John Sher- 
man, in a small work entitled, “ Beauties of Trenton Falls,” by N. P. 
Willis, dated 1857, in which he propounded the theory that since the 
