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The following names were then presented for election as 

 Active Members, having been approved by the Council: 

 Edwin H. Brown Wantagh, L.I. 



H. A. DuPont Winterthur, Delaware 



Dr. Samuel M. Evans 115 East 39th Street 



Robert Hoe, Jr. 21 Mt. Morris Park 



Francis T. Maxwell Rockville, Conn. 



Herman A. Metz 253 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn 



Lewis R. Morris 155 West 58th Street 



Associate Active Members 

 Thomas C. Brown Columbia University 



Clarence E. Gordon Columbia "University 



It was voted that the Assistant Secretary cast a unanimous 

 ballot for the above candidates. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



Hermon C. Bumpus, 



Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 

 May i, 1905. 



Section met at 8.30 p.m., Vice-President Hovey presiding. 

 The minutes of the last meeting of the Section were read 

 and approved. 



The following program was then offered: 

 J. Howard Wilson, The Pleistocene Beds of Sankaty Head, 



Nantucket. 

 C. E. Gordon, Early Stages of some Paleozoic Corals. 



Thomas C. Brown, A New Tertiary Fauna from the Atlan- 

 tic Coast Province. 

 C. A. Hartnagel, Structural Relations and Origin of the 



Limonite Beds at Cornwall, N.Y. 

 A. W. Grabau, . Types of Sedimentary Overlap. 



Summary of Papers. 



Mr. Wilson, in his paper, said that when Sankaty Head, 



Nantucket, was first visited by early explorers the section at 



that locality was kept freshly exposed by the cutting back 



of the bluff by the sea, but for quite a period of years this has 



