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Associate Membership 



Mr. Ralph C. Blanchard, 54 West 40th Street (graduate student, 

 Columbia ) . 



The Recording Secretary then reported the following death : 



J. Pierpont Morgan, Active Member of the Academy for 22 years, 

 died 31 March, 1913. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



E. 0. HOVEY, 



Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY 

 7 April, 1913 



Section was called to order at 8 :25 p. m., Vice-President J. E. Wood- 

 man presiding. 



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



On a reading by Dr. E. 0. Hovey, Recording Secretary of the Academy, 

 of the invitation extended the Academy by the Twelfth International 

 Geological Congress, which meets in August, 1913, at Toronto, Canada, 

 the following delegates were nominated by the Section : Dr. J. J. Steven- 

 son, Professor J. Edmund Woodman, Professor James F. Kemp and 

 Professor Charles P. Berkey. 



The following programme was then offered : 



Raymond Bartlett Earle, The Genesis of Certain Paleozoic Inter- 

 bedded Iron Ores. 

 Warren M. Foote, Factors in the Exchange A^alue of Meteorites. 



(Read by Title) 



Summary of Paper 



Mr. Earle presented fifty lantern slides, showing both microscopic and 

 gross structures and textures, several being projected by the splendid 

 apparatus of the New York Microscopical Society. About 125 specimens 

 were also exhibited. A further excellent feature was a complete advance 

 summary of the paper, mimeograph copies of which were available for all 

 present. 



Mr. Earle's work had been furthered by a grant made by the Academy 

 some months ago. He has visited many exposures along the Paleozoic 

 bedded iron ores in the East, from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to central New 



