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ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
BUSINESS MEETING. 
December 6, 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 November 8 were read and approved. 
The following candidates for Associate Active Membership, recom¬ 
mended by the Council, were duly elected: 
Miss Elvira Wood, Columbia University, 
Frederick K. Morris, 485 Central Park West, 
Paul Billingsley, 446 Macon St., Brooklyn, 
Joseph P. Byrne, 1133 Broadway. 
The Recording Secretary reported the following death: 
Dr. Kakichi Mitsukuri, an Honorary Member since 1908. 
The Recording Secretary then brought forward the amendment to 
Chapter 5, Paragraph 1, of the By-Laws, making the third sentence of that 
paragraph read “Failure to pay the required dues within three months after 
notification of election has been sent shall render the election void,” this 
amendment having been proposed in due form at the October meeting. 
On motion, the amendment was unanimously adopted. 
The Recording Secretary then offered in writing from Dr. N. L. Britton 
the following amendment to the Constitution: “Change the fourth sentence 
of Article II so that it shall read ‘Corresponding and Honorary Members 
shall be chosen from among persons who have attained distinction in some 
branch of science.’” According to the constitution, this amendment is to 
be voted upon at a succeeding ordinary business meeting of the Academy 
after notice has been given in due form by the Recording Secretary. 
Prof. James F. Kemp then presented orally a brief but sympathetic notice 
of the life and work of Mr. John H. Caswell, an Active Member of the 
Academy for forty years, whose death was reported at the November meeting. 
On motion, Professor Kemp was requested to submit his memorial in form 
for printing. 
Professor Kemp called attention to the portraits of Darwin now mounted 
on the walls of the Academy room. 
The Academy then adjourned. 
Edmund Otis Hovey, 
Recording Secretary. 
