64 ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. [June 23, 
The Council report recommended : 
(1.) The payment of certain bills. 
(2.) The authorization of payment by the Treasurer of expenses 
incurred in publication of Proceedings, not to exceed two hundred and 
fifty dollars, upon order of the Publication Committee. 
The report was adopted. 
Upon motion of the Treasurer the list of candidates for fellowship 
was continued upon the table until the next regular business meeting. 
A bill of six and one half dollars for printing notices of meetings 
was ordered paid. 
The President, by request, made an informal verbal report upon 
the excursion to Stony Brook Glen. Mr. Howell and himself had 
found above the glen, in the Chemung formation, a bed of fossiliferous 
rock, apparently an impure limestone, which contained boulder-like 
masses of fine grained homogeneous limestone. 
The origin of the water of the artesian well in Gates, near the city 
line, was discussed. The well was flowing 300,000 gallons daily, and 
during the seven days of the preceding week 9,000,000 gallons had been 
pumped out without making any perceptible effect upon the well, either 
in its flow, or the chemical composition of the water. The water was 
quite hard, and with a slight taste and order of sulphuretted hydrogen- 
The following paper was presented by MarTIn W. COOKE: 
ON THE GENESIS AND NATURE OF THE RINGS OF 
SATURN. 
Remarks were made by A. L. Arey, Wil‘iam Streeter, Charles E. 
Lee, M. A. Veeder and the President. 
Dr. M. A. VEEDER stated that some of the advocates of the 
“indraught theory ” of storms had recently made important concessions, 
and made remarks supplementary to his paper of the preceding meeting. 
JUNE 23, 1890. 
STATED MEETING. 
The President, Pror. H. L. FarRCHILD, in the chair. 
‘Thirty-two persons present. 
