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The following candidates for Membership, recommended by the Council, 
were duly elected: 
Active Membership: 
F. Wilton James, 434 Warren St., Hudson, N. Y. 
Associate Active Membership: 
G. Sherbourne Rogers, Columbia University. 
The following amendment to Chapter 5, Paragraph 1, of the By-Laws 
as the third sentence of that paragraph was proposed in writing by Messrs. 
Cox and Hovey: “Failure to pay the required dues within three months 
after notification of election has been sent, shall render the election void.” 
The Recording Secretary reported the following deaths: 
Simon Newcomb, Honorary Member since 1891, 
Prof. Samuel W. Johnson, Corresponding Member since 1876, 
T. Mellard Pteade, Corresponding Member since 1888, 
T. W. Pearsall, Active Member since 1907, 
W. Wheeler Smith, Active Member since 1905. 
President Cox then reported that he had attended the Darwin Memorial 
Celebration of the University of Cambridge, England, 22-24 June, as official 
delegate of the Academy and presented the greetings of the Academy. 
Professor Britton then described the Darwin Exhibit at the British 
Museum. 
The Academy then adjourned. 
Edmund Otis Hovey, 
R e cor din g Sec retar y. 
SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 
October 4, 1909. 
Section met at 9:03 P. M., Professor Kemp presiding in the absence of 
Vice-President Stevenson. 
Dr. E. O. Hovey was elected Secretary pro tem in the absence of Dr. 
Berkey. 
The minutes of the last meeting of the Section were read and approved. 
The following programme was then offered: 
Amadeus W. Grabau, Present Status of the Genesee River Problem. 
The Section then adjourned. 
Edmund Otis Hovey, 
Secretary pro tem. 
