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4. Preliminary Eeport of some of the principal mines in Franklin, Jeffer- 

 son, Washington, St. Francois and Madison Counties, Missouri, by A. 

 Litton, chemist, 94 pages, included in Part II. of 2d Geological Report by 

 G. C. Swallow, State Geologist, 1855. 



Meeting of October 20, 1902. 



President Eliot in the chair, seventeen persons present. 



On behalf of A. S. Horwitz, J. J. Singer and G. L. Eosen- 

 berg, the President presented to the museum of the Academy 

 a collection of fossil leaf prints from the Green River forma- 

 tion at Florissant, Colo., for which the thanks of the Academy 

 were ordered extended. 



A paper by Professor A. S. Chessiu, On some relations 

 between Bessel functions of the first and of the second kind, 

 was presented by title and referred to the Council. 



Professor Trelease exhibited photographs showing the vari- 

 ations in the ring or collar of Lepiota naucinoides and a series 

 of lantern slides illustrating autumnal coloring of foliage. 



Five persons were proposed for active membership. 



Meeting of November 3, 1902. 



President Eliot in the chair, eighteen persons present. 



The Council reported that exchange relations had been es- 

 tablished with the Institut Botanique, Bucarest, Musees 

 Tcheque-Slavs, Caslav, and Botanisches Centralblatt, Leiden. 



Mr. G. G. Hedgcock gave an illustrated account of the 

 sugar beet industry in the United States and some of the dif- 

 ficulties attending it, tracing the development of the industry 

 and reviewing some of the field and factory obstacles that it 

 had been necessary to overcome, and speaking particularly of 

 the fungous diseases of the crop. 



Messrs. B. M. Duggar, of Columbia, Mo., August Eimbeck, 

 of New Haven, Mo., and Charles H. Gundelach, A. A. Hen- 

 ske and Frank Ryan, of St. Louis, were elected to active mem- 

 bership. 



One person was proposed for active membership. 



