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The following candidate for Active Membership, recommended by the 
Council, was duly elected: 
W. M. Carlebach, 136 West 86th Street. 
The Recording Secretary reported the following death: 
Alfred R. Wolff, Active Member since 1898. 
The Recording Secretary then reported the gift by President Cox of 
certain portraits of Charles Darwin, pages of the original manuscript of 
“The Descent of Man” and the naturalist’s diary kept while on the 
Beagle. On motion, the Academy instructed the Recording Secretary to 
transmit to President Cox an expression of appreciation of his generous gift. 
The Academy then adjourned. 
Edmund Otis Hovey, 
Recording Secretary. 
SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 
May 3, 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. 
Marshall H. Saville, Observations on Recent Geologic Changes Af¬ 
fecting the Coast of Ecuador. 
H. D. Kinney, A New Anthophyllite Occurrence on Man¬ 
hattan Island. 
Alexis A. Julien, The Moulin Potholes within New York City. 
Summary of Papers. 
Professor Saville ’s paper was illustrated with many lantern slides showing 
the coastal conditions and sedimentation structures and remains of human 
handiwork, and the author emphasized the wide distribution of these re¬ 
mains and pointed out the importance of a thorough geologic study of their 
association as a necessary step in unraveling an interesting prehistoric 
chapter. Remarks were made on the paper by Professor J. F. Kemp and 
Professor A. W. Grabau, and further explanatory remarks were made by 
Professor Saville. 
