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ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 
April 5, 1909. 
Section met at 8:15 p. m., President Cox presiding in the absence of Vice- 
President Stevenson. 
The minutes of the last meeting of the Section were read and approved. < 
The following programme was then offered: 
George F. Kunz, The Two Greatest Diamonds of History; Their 
Finding and Ultimate Disposal. 
W. D. Matthew, Bulletins on Geologic Correlation through Verte¬ 
brate Paleontology by Lnternational Coopera¬ 
tion. Nos. 1 and 2. 
At the conclusion of the programme a notice was read announcing a 
joint meeting of geologists of the northeastern states under the auspices of 
the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, April 23-24, 1909. 
A resolution was then presented by Dr. A. A. Julien as follows: “The 
Geological Section of the New York Academy of Sciences would respectfully 
petition the Council of the Academy to send an immediate protest to the 
Assembly Cities Committee of the Legislature at Albany against the Francis 
Bill for the occupation of the Arsenal site in Central Park by the National 
Academy of Design or any other society.” A motion to adopt this resolu¬ 
tion was discussed at some length by Dr. Kunz and Professor Grabau. On 
vote the resolution was adopted. 
Summary of Papers. 
Dr. Kunz gave a very interesting account of the finding of the Excelsior 
and the Cullman diamonds and called attention to their special characters. 
Models of these diamonds and several lantern views of the localities where 
they were found, as well as of the stages that they passed through in reach¬ 
ing their present condition as polished gems, were shown. To a question 
about the recent developments in the Arkansas diamond locality, Dr. Kunz 
replied that arrangements were being made to work the mine and that over 
five hundred stones had been found. 
Dr. Matthew explained the scope and nature of these researches and 
gave the names and authors of the Bulletins as follows: 
(a) Bulletin No. 1. Outline of Plan and Scope of the Correlation Work 
