686 RECORDS. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



December 4, 1899. 



Academy met at 8:15 P. M., Professor Stevenson, presiding. 

 The minutes of the last business meeting were read and approved. 



The Secretary reported from the Council that Professor J. F. 

 Kemp would have charge of the Annual Reception in the spring 

 of 1900. 



The following Candidates for resident membership, approved 

 by the Council, were duly elected : 



Maurice A. Bigelow, Teachers College. 



Edward W. Barry, Passaic, N. J. 



Walter Bryan, M.D., 215 St., James Place, Brooklyn. 



Dr. W. Golden Mortimer, 504 West 146th Street. 



Romyn Hitchcock, Hotel Lincoln, Broadway and 57th Street. 



H. R. Linville, Boys' High School. 



Edward L. Thorndike, Teachers College. 



R. S. Woodworth, N. Y. University Medical College. 



Dr. Annie D'Zou, 63 Stuyvesant Avenue, Brooklyn. 



Richard E. Dodge, 

 Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF BIOLOGY. 

 December ii, 1899. 



Section met at 8:15 P. M., Professor Bashford Dean presid- 

 ing in the absence of Professor F. S. Lee. The minutes of the 

 last meeting, of Section were read and approved. The names of 

 two candidates for resident membership were read and referred 

 to the Council according to the By-Laws. 



The following program was then offered : 



Bashford Dean, Contribution to the Devonian Fish Fauna 

 OF Ohio. 



H. R. Linville, An Account of Zoological Explorations 

 ON PuGET Sound during Summer of 1899. 



M. A. Howe, Vegetative Reproduction by Means of 

 Brood Organs in the Hepatic/E. 



