2/S ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. [Alar. I4, 



March 14, 1899. 



The meeting was held at the Reynolds Library, President 

 Fairchild in the chair ; one hundred persons present. 



Mrs. C. R. Sumner and Dr. Charles T. Mitchell, of Can- 

 andaigua, were elected active members. 



Mr. Elon Howard Eaton read a paper entitled 



BIRDS OF WESTERN NEW YORK.* 



The paper was illustrated by prepared skins of most of the birds 

 of this vicinity. 



Mr. Eaton suggested the forming of an Ornithological Section 

 of the Academy, and several of those present expressed a desire to 

 join such a section. 



• March 28, 1899. 



The Academy united with the Rochester Public Health Associa- 

 tion in holding a meeting in the hall of the Chamber of Commerce. 

 Over three hundred persons were present. 



The meeting was called to order by President H. L. Fair- 

 child, who, after stating the object of the meeting, was followed by 

 Dr. E. M. Moore, President of the Health Association, who assumed 

 charge of the further proceedings. 



The paper of the evening was by Dr. George W. Goler upon 



THE DISTRIBUTION OF TUBERCULOSIS IN ROCHESTER, 

 ITS CAUSATION, PREVENTION AND HYGIENIC 



TREATMENT. 



The lecturer showed a map of Rochester on which were marked 

 the localities in which deaths from tuberculosis had occurred during 

 the last twelve years. He briefly explained that in the sections where 

 the most deaths had occurred the conditions were the poorest ; and 

 that in the districts that were comparatively free from the disease this 

 was traceable to the fact that the inhabitants have good drainage, 

 pure air and sunlight in abundance. 



♦This paper is printed in tlie Proceedings of the Academy, volume 4, pages 1-64. 



