l68 rochester academy of science. [oct. lo, 



October io, 1892. 

 stated business meeting. 



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



Forty-six persons present. 



The Council report recommended the payment of certain bills, 

 which by vote were ordered paid. 



The resignation of the Secretary, Dr. P. Max Foshay was 

 accepted, and a committee consisting of Reverend C. B. Gardner, 

 Dr. J. E. Line, and Professor Charles W. Dodge, was appointed to 

 draft resolutions of regret, who reported later as follows : 



" As we have been called upon to receive the resignation of our 

 worthy Secretary, Dr. P. Max Foshay, on account of his removal 

 from the city, we cannot let acceptance of it pass without an expres- 

 sion of our sincere regret at the loss of so faithful and efficient a 

 Secretary and so valuable a member of our Academy. Dr. Foshay 

 having performed the principal part of the work of preparing our 

 proceedings for publication, and furnished one of our most valuable 

 scientific papers has merited our hearty thanks for his labor, and an 

 expression of our appreciation of his success. We wish that he may 

 be equally useful and acceptable elsewhere." 



The report was unanimously adopted. 



A letter from Professor F. C. Chamberlain of the Chicago Uni- 

 versity was read, soliciting contributions of the proceedings of the 

 Society. 



The following resolution was adopted : 



Resolved: — That the hearty thanks of the society be extended to 

 Mr. G. K. Gilbert for his lecture of Aug. 22, in Music Hall, under the 

 auspices of the Society and complimentary to the American Associ- 

 ation for the Advancement of Science. 



Miss Beckwith announced that Mr. Gilbert Van Ingen, formerly 

 of Cornell University, now of Yale University, had presented to the 

 Academy a second collection of plants for the herbarium, con- 

 sisting of 550 specimens, representing 335 species ; many being rare, 

 and the collection as a whole being one of great value. 64 species 

 embracing 117 specimens are new to our herbarium. 



Mr. F. D. Phinney, gave an interesting description of 

 BURMA, ITS LANGUAGE AND PEOPLE. 

 A vote of thanks was extended to Mr. Phinney. 



