REGULAR MEETING. 

 March 17th, igo6. 



The meeting was held at the residence of Mr. William H. Mitchill, 

 Port Richmond. 



President Howard R. Bayne in the chair. 



Eighteen members were present. 



The minutes of the meeting of February 17th, 1906, were read and 

 approved. 



The Secretary called attention to a recently issued circular signed by 

 the local secretary of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, announcing that the next meeting of the association would 

 be held in New York during the last week in December, 1906, and the 

 first week in January, 1907, and stated that further reference to the 

 subject would be made and some action suggested in due time. 



Dr. Philip Dowell, for the publication committee, reported that the 

 pamphlet containing the History, Act of Incorporation, Constitution 

 and By-Laws, list of members, etc., had been printed in accordance 

 with instructions, and that it was ready for distribution. 



The following was elected to active membership: 

 William A. Crane, Stapleton. 



Dr. Arthur Hollick exhibited a specimen of soapstone rock, contain- 

 ing well-defined octahedral crystals of magnetite and read the follow- 

 ing paper : 



A Soapstone Drift Bowlder Containing Magnetite. 



This specimen was found by Mr. William T. Davis. near GifTord's 

 Lane, and it probably represents a fragment transported by glacial ac- 

 tion from the outcrops on or just to the north of Richmond Hill. 

 Transported fragments and bowlders of red jasperoid limonite are con- 

 spicuous in the same locality where the specimen was found, and these 

 were certainly derived from the Richmond Hill region, where the li- 

 monite is in place. 



Thus far we have not found any magnetite as well defined as these 

 crystals are in any of our soapstone outcrops, but in very fine particles 

 it is a well known constituent of the rock at many localities. Some of 

 this iron ore is known to contain chromium and has been listed as 

 chromite, a quite large fragment of which, found on Ward's Hill, 

 Tompkinsville, was shown at our meeting on December 9th, 1893, 



