March 24, 1899.] 



SCIENCE, 



453 



It is a great pleasure to the Academy to feel 

 that certain of the scieutitic wants of the city- 

 are soon to be met, owing to the encouragement 

 given by one of our Patrons, who has always 

 been interested in the Academy. I refer par- 

 ticularlj' to the gifc to the Scientific Alliance, 

 of which the New York Academy of Sciences 

 Is the original member, of $10,000 for a scientific 

 building, donated by Mrs. Herrman. During 

 the coming year it is hoped to bring the several 

 sections in touch, so as to have a uniform policy 

 of procedure, and the manner of printing the 

 proceedings will be simplified and unified. 



The report of the Treasurer showed the 

 finances to be in a promising condition, but 

 that the expenses too nearly equalled the in- 

 come, and that endowments are very necessary 

 if the work Is to be increased as it should be. 



One of the naost interesting features of the 

 meeting was the report by the Editor of the 

 Annals concerning the details of his work dur- 

 ing the last year in printing the volume just 

 finished according to the new plan as to typog- 

 raphy, pagination, illustration and general 

 form, which was adopted a year ago and which 

 has proved extremely successful and gratifying. 



The last official report was a brief one by the 

 retiring Librarian concerning the present con- 

 dition of the library, which is now housed in 

 a large room in Schermerhorn Hall, of Colum- 

 bia University, and available for reference by 

 all working scientists and members of the 

 Academy. 



The following list of honorary and corre- 

 sponding members was then elected, and seven- 

 teen resident members were made Fellows be- 

 cause of their attainments in scientific work : 



HONOEAEY MEMBERS. 



Lord Rayleigh, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., F.E.S., 

 Eoyal Institution of Great Britain, Albemarle St., 

 Piccadilly, N. W., London. 



George Howard Darwin, M.A., F.E.S., Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, Eng. 



COEEESPONDING MEMBERS. 



Dr. Lonis DoUo, Mus^e d'Histoire Naturelle, Brus- 

 sels, Belgium. 



Dr. Otto Jaekel, Kgl. Museum fiir Naturkunde, 

 Invalidenstr. 43, Berlin. 



Professor Dr. Eberbard Fraas, Kgl. Naturalien 

 Kabiuet, Stuttgart, Germany. 



Professor Dr. Charles Depcret, Faoult<; des Sciences, 

 Lyons, France. 



Dr. C. W. Andrews, British Museum of Natural 

 History, London, England. 



Dr. Max Scblosser, Palaeontologische Sammlung 

 des Staates, Alte Akademie, Munich, Germany. 



G. H. Boulenger, British Museum, London, Eng- 

 land. 



Professor G. B. Howe, Normal College of Science, 

 S. Kensington, London, England. 



Dr. Walter Innes, School of Medicine, Cairo, 

 Egypt. 



Dr. A. Liversidge, Sydney, New South Wales. 



Professor Mansfield Merriman, Lehigh University, 

 South Bethlehem, Pa. 



Dr. Stuart Weller, University of Chicago, Chicago, 

 111. 



Professor Lud wig Boltzmann, University of Vienna, 

 Vienna, Austria. 



Professor P. LaCroix, Musue d'Histoire Naturelle, 

 Paris, France. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward, British Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, London. 



Professor Dr. Fried. Kohlrausch, Physikalish Tech- 

 nische Keiohsanstalt, Charlottenberg, Marshstrasse 25, 

 Berlin. 



Professor E. H. Traquair, Museum of Science and 

 Art, Edinburgh, Scotland. 



Professor W. C. Brogger, Chriatiania, Norway. 



J. G. Baker, Eoyal Gardens, Kew. 



Professor Wilhelm Ostwald, University of Leipzig, 

 Leipzig, Germany. 



The list of oflicers given below was then, 

 elected by ballot : 



President, Henry F. Osborn. 



1st Vice-President, James F. Kemp. 



Sd Vice-President, Chas. L. Bristol. 



Corresponding Secretary, William Stratford. 



Recording Secretary, Eiohard E. Dodge. 



Treasurer, Charles F. Cox. 



Librarian, Bashford Dean. 



Councillors, Franz Boas, Charles A. Doremus, Wil- 

 liam Hallock, Harold Jaooby, Lawrence A. McLouth, 

 L. M. Underwood. 



Curators, Harrison G. Dyar, Alexis A. Julien, 

 George F. Kunz, Louis H. Laudy, William D. 

 Schoonmaker. 



Finance Committee, Henry Dudley, John H. Hinton, 

 Cornelius Van Brunt. 



The formal work of the evening was followed 

 by the annual address of the President. Pro- 

 fessor Osborn took for his title ' The Succession 

 of Mammalian Fauna in America, compared with 

 that in Europe during the Tertiary Period.' 



