[Annals N. Y. Acad. Sci., Vol. XIX, No. 12, Part III, pp. 2S3-401. 
May, 1910.] 
RECORDS OF MEETINGS 
OF THE 
NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
January, 1909, to December, 1909. 
By Edmund Otis Hovey, Recording Secretary. 
BUSINESS MEETING. 
January 4, 1909. 
The Academy met at 8:20 p. m. at the American Museum of Natural 
History, Vice-President Stevenson presiding in the absence of President Cox. 
The minutes of the meeting of December 7, 1908, were read and approved. 
The following candidates for Active Membership, recommended by the 
Council, were duly elected, 
Louis Hussakof, Ph. D., American Museum of Natural History, 
Arthur F. MacArthur, Buckingham Hotel. 
The Academy then adjourned. 
Edmund Otis Hovey, 
Recording Secretary. 
SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 
January 4, 1909. 
Section met at 8:15 P. M., Vice-President Stevenson presiding. 
The minutes of the last meeting of the Section were read and approved. 
The following programme was then offered: 
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