292 KOCHESTER ACADEMY OV SCIENCE. [JllllC II, 



The Council report recommended: 



(i.) The payment of certain bills. 



(2.) The election of the following candidates as active members: 

 Miss Josephine Hokiman, Mr. Clifton J. Saklk, Mr. Edward P. 

 Webster. 



(3.) The election of Mr. J. Eugene Whitney as Second Vice- 

 President, in place of Dr. M. L. Mai-lory, deceased. 



The bills were ordered paid, and the candidates were elected by 

 formal ballot. 



By a formal ballot of the Society Mr. Whitney was elected 

 Second Vice-President for the remainder of the year. 



The Librarian, Miss Beckwith, reported the accession to the 

 library since the annual meeting in January, of three hundred titles ; 

 two hundred of these from foreign countries, and one hundred from 

 various societies and institutions of the United States. 



Mr. F. W. Warner exhibited a curious membranous sheet of 

 tissue, without at once explaining its origin. It was brown in 

 color, very thin, tough, but soft and flexible, and in appearance 

 resembling a very thin sheet of rubber, excepting it was not elastic. 

 Mr. Warner finally explained that it was the "mother" from vinegar. 

 He had washed and scraped it and had treated it with potash and 

 with ammonia, to remove the acid and the vinegar odor, but without 

 success in respect to the latter. 



Mr. Elon Huntington read a paper entitled : 



THE EARTH'S ROTATION AND INTERIOR HEAT. 



The paper was a discussion of the physical problems connected 

 with the earth. 



Mr. Charles H. Ward exhibited plaster casts of a hand and 

 foot illustrating a case of abnormal enlargement of the extremities, a 

 disease known as Acromegaly, and read an interesting account of the 

 subject from which these casts were made, and presented the facts 

 already known concerning this newly recognized disease. He dis- 

 cussed the effect of the disease upon various portions of the body, 

 and stated the fact that the^ " pituitary body" in the brain was always 

 affected. Pjy a diagram on the blackboard he explained the theoreti- 

 cal relation of the "pituitary body" to the cavities of the embryo. 



The matter was discussed by Dr. V). V. Stoddard. 



