42 rochester academy of science. [j^n. ii 



January it, 1892. 



thirteenth annual meeting. 



The President, Professor H. L. Fairchild, in the chair. 



Thirty-one persons present. 



The Council report recommended the election of the following 

 candidates as resident members : 



Dr. p. Max Foshay, 

 Miss Georgiana C. Stone, 

 Mr. Arthur R. Selden. 



The candidates were elected by formal ballot. 



The annual reports of the ofificers and sections were presented. 



secretary's report. 



The report of the Secretary, Mr. Frank C. Baker, is summar- 

 ized as follows : 



During the past year seventeen meetings have been held, at 

 which the average attendance has been fifty-three. 



Twenty resident members and one honorary member have been 

 elected and six resignations have been accepted. Six members have 

 been made fellows. 



Nineteen papers have been read and six lectures have been given 

 before the Academy during the year. The papers are classified as 

 follows : — Zoology five ; Geology and Mineralogy, each three ; Arch- 

 aeology and Botany, each two ; Chemistry, Astronomy, Meteorology 

 and Photography, each one. Of the six lectures three were on Geol- 

 ogy, two on Geography and one on ZocJlogy. 



Two valuable collections have been added to the Cabinet of the 

 Academy this year. Prof. A. L. Akev presented a complete set of 

 specimens illustrating the local Palaeontology. Mr. John Walton 

 has given a collection of shells representing the Molluscan fauna of 

 Monroe County. 



