308 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Active Membership 



George S. Huntington, College of Physicians and Surgeons, 

 Frank G. Haughwout, 316 West 79th Street, 

 Harry R. Salomon, 258 Riverside Drive. 



Associate Membership 



Waldo Shumway, Columbia University, 



L. A. Adams, Columbia University, 



H. E. Anthony, American Museum of Natural History, 



F. K. Morris, 485 Central Park West. 



The Recording Secretary then reported the following deaths : 



Frederick Billings, Active Member since 1910, died 5 May, 1913, 

 George B. Post, Active Member since 1895, died 28 November, 1913. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



E. 0. HOVEY, 

 Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY 

 1 December, 1913 



Section met at 8 :15 p. M., Vice-President J. E. Woodman presiding. 



The minutes of the two preceding meetings were read and approved. 



A communication from Dr. E. 0. Hovey, Recording Secretary of the 

 Academy, was read, informing the Section of the Council's vote to re- 

 serve a certain volume of the Annals to a section requesting it, to contain 

 papers emanating from the members of that section. After some discus- 

 sion, no decision was arrived at upon this matter. 



Professor J. F. Kemp exhibited a specimen of cedar tree found in 

 glacial drift one foot from bedrock, 81 feet below curb, on the site of the 

 Equitable Life Insurance Building, at Broadway, Cedar, Pine and Nas- 

 sau streets, courtesy of J. R. Kilpatrick of the Thompson-Starrett Co. 



The following programme was then offered : 



Miss Marjorie O'Connell, A Revision of the Genus Zaphrentis 



(Read by Title). 



Francis M. Van Tuyl, The Origin of Geodes. 



Charles P. Berkey, Origin of Some of the Complex Struc- 



tures OF THE Ancient Gneisses op 

 New York. 



