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atories, flues and bag-house, old refineries, etc. A chart of smelting showed 
course of materials. The handling of raw materials, the method of bedding 
at different smelters, of roasting, briquetting fine material, the blast furnace, 
methods of charging, tapping of lead, of matte and slag, the separation of 
the same and the handling of slag were shown by photographs. Level ver¬ 
sus sloping site was shown by contrasting photographs of the Murray 
plant with those of Leadville, Eilers and others. Two copper smelters 
were described, the Highland Boy at Bingham with its 20 McDougall and 3 
Wethey roasters, 9 reverberatory smelters and 4 converter stands for making 
blister copper; the Garfield plant with 3 reverberatory and 2 blast furnace 
smelters and 4 converter stands, the oxide and sulphide mills, beds, etc., 
and the H. and H. equipment for roasting fine concentrates. 
The Section then adjourned. 
William Campbell, 
Secretary . 
SPECIAL MEETING. 
January 25, 1909. 
The following public lecture took the place of the regular meeting of the 
Section of Anthropology and Psychology, and the Ethnological Society of 
America was the guest of the Academy on the occasion: 
The Antiquity of Man 
By Albrecht Penck, of Berlin, Germany. 
Edmund Otis Hovel', 
Secretary. 
BUSINESS MEETING. 
February 1 , 1909. 
The Academy met at 8:15 P. M. at the American Museum of Natural 
History, President Cox presiding. 
The minutes of the meeting of January 4 were read and approved. 
The following candidate for Active Membership, recommended by the 
Council, was duly elected: 
