lye ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. [April 22, 



THE EVOLUTION OF SEEDS. 



The lecture was illustrated by a series of lantern views. A vote 

 of thanks was tendered the lecturer. 



April 8, 1895. 

 The President in the chair. Twenty-five persons present. 



The Council report recommended the payment of certain bills, 

 and that Professor W. W. Rowlee, of Cornell University, be 

 elected a Corresponding Member. 



Professor Rowlee was elected and the bills ordered paid. 



The following paper was then presented : 



DIPHTHERIA AND ANTI-TOXINE. 

 By Professor Charles Wright Dodge. 



The paper was illustrated by apparatus, cultures and microscopic 

 preparations. 



April 22, 1895. 

 The President in the chair. A large audience present. 



The fourth lecture of the Popular Lecture Course, upon the Pan- 

 ama Canal, by Mr. Adelbert Cronise, which had been announced 

 for this evening, was not given on account of the lecturer being in the 

 Hawaiian Islands. As a substitute the President of the Academy 

 presented the paper which he had been unable to read at the Annual 

 Meeting, entitled : 



THE GEOLOGY OF THE PINNACLE HILLS. 



By Professor Herman Leroy Fairchild. 



[abstract.] * 



This range of hills, lying along the southern edge of the city of 

 Rochester and extending from Brighton to the Genesee river, is of 

 peculiar geologic interest, and the location and trend with complex 



•The substance of this paper, with a map, is published in the .American Geologist, Vol. 

 XVI, pages 39-51, July, 1895. 



