312 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



EEPORT OF THE EECOEDING SECRETARY 



During the year 1913, the Academy held 9 business meetings and 20 

 sectional meetings, at which 58 stated papers were presented as follows: 



Section of Geology and Mineralogy, 13 papers; Section of Biology, 19 

 papers; Section of Anthropology and Psychology, 26 papers. 



Two of the sectional meetings were of general character and of par- 

 ticular interest and were followed by a social hour, with refreshments, in 

 one of the exhibition halls of the Museum. They were attended by from 

 two hundred to three hundred members and their friends, who seemed to 

 enjoy this innovation in the Academy meetings. 



The first was held under the auspices of the Section of Astronomy, 

 Physics and Chemistry on the evening of 21 April, when Professor Ber- 

 gen Davis, of Columbia University, gave a lecture upon "Electricity as 

 R-evealed by its Passage Through Gases.^^ The other was held on 3 No- 

 vember under the auspices of the Section of Geology and Mineralogy, 

 when Professor Ellsworth Huntington, of Yale University, lectured upon 

 "Changes of Climate During Historical Times.^' 



In addition to these general meetings of the Academy, three public 

 lectures were given to the members of the Academy and the Affiliated 

 Societies and their friends, as follows : 



"The Simplon Section of the Alps." By Dr. A. Rothpletz, Professor 

 of Geolog}^ in the University of Munich. 



"My Oceanographical Cruises." By His Serene Highness, Albert, 

 Prince of Monaco. 



"The Vegetation of Patagonia, Fuegia and the Subantarctic Islands." 

 By Dr. Carl Skottsberg, Professor of Botany in the University at Upsala, 

 Sweden. 



Two special meetings of the Council and some of the Fellows actively 

 engaged in scientific work in the city were held during the year to formu- 

 late plans for carrying out some of the suggestions made in President 

 McMillin's address a year ago. The first was held on 28 February, at the 

 Hotel Ansonia, where those present were the guests of President Emer- 

 son McMillin, and the second was held on 24 March, at Delmonico's, 

 where Treasurer Henry L. Doherty was the host. As an outcome of these 

 meetings, a special committee on the extension of the Academy's work 

 was formed and plans were adopted for work which the Academy hopes 

 to begin next year. 



At the present time, the membership of the Academy is 481, which in- 

 cludes 462^ Active Members (of whom 28 are Associate Members, 88 Fel- 



^ Including eight mombers elect who have not yet paid their first annual dues. 



