64:6 RECORDS. 



Woodbuiy G. Langdon, 719 Fifth Ave. 



James P. Hall, Tribune Building. 



James McNaughton, i Broadway. 



L. J. R. Hoist, 52 East Union Square. 



William Butcher, 525 Manhattan Ave. 



The name of one candidate for resident membership was read 

 and referred to Council according to the By-laws. 



The following paper was read by title, and referred to the 

 Publication Committee, viz., 



Theodore G. White, The Black River, Trenton and Utica 

 Formations in the Champlain Valley of New York and 

 Vermont. 



President Osborn then spoke at some length concerning the 

 work of the late Professor O. C. Marsh, of Yale University. 

 President Osborn spoke of the fact that the great trio of Ameri- 

 can vertebrate palaeontologists, Leidy, Cope and Marsh, had 

 now passed away. He then considered in detail the results that 

 Professor Marsh had given to the world in the last twenty years 

 concerning vertebrate palaeontology, and spoke particularly of 

 the importance of his discoveries concerning the ancestr}^ of the 

 horse, and also concerning the great group of dinosaurs. 



At the close of this brief but forceful eulogy, the Academy 

 adjourned. 



Richard E. Dodge, 

 Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF BIOLOGY. 



April 3, 1899. 



Section met at 8 P. M., Professor F. S. Lee presiding. 

 The minutes of the last meeting of Section were read and ap- 

 proved. 



The following program was then offered : 



R. Ellsworth Call, The Zoology of Mammoth Cave. 



N. R. Harrington, The Senff Zoological Expedition. 



