^02 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



After the lecture, a collation was served in the Eskimo Hall. A recep- 

 tion to Professor Huntington ended a pleasant evening, and the Section 

 then adjourned. 



Albert B. Pacini, 



Secretary. 



SECTION OF BIOLOGY 

 10 November, 1913 



Section met at 8 :15 p. m., Vice-President W. D. Matthew presiding. 



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



The following nomination of officer for the year 1914 was made and 

 approved for transmission to the Council : 



For Vice-President of the Academy and Chairman of the Section: 

 Professor Eaymond C. Osburn. 



Dr. William K. Gregoiy was elected Secretary for the year 1914. 



The Secretary read a letter from the Recording Secretary, stating 

 that the Council had voted to assign to any section requesting it, a certain 

 volume of the Annals, to contain papers emanating from the members of 

 that section, the control of publication, however, remaining as heretofore 

 with the Council. 



It was moved and seconded that a committee be appointed by the Chair- 

 man to consider the publication of a separate volume of the Annals to 

 contain papers read at the meetings of the section. Motion carried. The 

 Chairman stated that he would appoint such a committee. 



It was moved and seconded that the next meeting of the section, on 8 

 December, 1913, should be devoted to a conference on Unit Characters. 



By request of the Secretary, it was voted that a Committee on Arrange- 

 ments should be appointed by the Chairman to assist the officers of the 

 Section in carrying on the work of the Section and in extending its mem- 

 bership. 



The following lecture was then offered : 



Dr. Robert Broom, The Origin of Mammals. 



Summary of Paper 



Dr. Broom, formerly Professor of Geology and Zoology in Victoria 



College, Stellenbosch, South Africa, illustrated his lecture with lantern 



slides, and especially with a series of South African mammal-like reptiles, 



^nd said in abstract : In 1876, Owen, in describing the fossil reptiles of 



