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Dr. Kunz described the Modoc, Scott County, Kansas, meteor- 

 ite, that detonated over Modoc at 9.30 p.m., Sept. 2, 1905. 

 First a loud sharp report was heard; then followed a rumbling 

 for thirty seconds, when a shower of over a dozen stones fell 

 which weighed from one ounce to twelve pounds each. The 

 stone is an almost white, pulverulent mass, with minute specks 

 of native iron or troilite, with an occasional white, glassy, 

 cleavable feldspar inclusion. 



A. W. Grabau, 



Secretary. 



SECTION OF BIOLOGY. 

 December ii, 1905. 



Section met at 8.15 p.m., at the American Museum of Natural 

 History, Vice-President Wheeler presiding. 



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

 approved. 



The following program was then offered : 



Adele M. Fielde, The Progressive Odor of Ants and Its 



Influence in their Communal Life. 

 A. F. Bandelier, Animal Life in Peru and Bolivia. 

 May Cline, Principles of Bird Flight. 



F. M. Chapman, Certain Instincts in Birds. 



No abstracts received. 



M. A. Bigelow, 



Secretary. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 

 December 18, 1905. 



The Academy met for the Annual Meeting on Monday, 

 Dec. 18, 1905, at 7.30 p.m., at the Hotel Endicott; Presi- 

 dent Kemp in the chair. A formal session for the transaction 

 of regular business was held, followed by a dinner, at which 

 sixty-one were present, including forty-six members and their 

 friends. 



