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to the general public and extend the influence of the Academy. A 

 vote of thanks was extended to the unnamed donor. 

 The Academy then adjourned. 



Edmund Otis Hovey, 



Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 

 8 Januaey, 1912. 



Section met at 8 :28 p. m., Vice-President J. E. Woodman presiding. 

 Thirty-three members and visitors were present. 



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

 approved. 



In the absence of Dr. Charles P. Berkey, Secretary of the Section, 

 Dr. E. 0. Hovey was elected Secretary pro tern. 



The Secretary pro tern presented an application in the name of Mr. 

 George Borup for a grant of $500 from the Esther Herrman Eesearch 

 Fund, as a contribution to the Crocker Land Expedition which he and 

 Mr. Donald B. MacMillan were organizing under the auspices of the 

 American Museum of Natural History and the American Geographical 

 Society. On motion, the application was referred to the Committee 

 on Grants from Research Funds with power. 



The programme for the evening was then taken up as follows : 



A. B. Pacini, The Metamoephism of Poetland Cement. I. 



Remarks were made by Professors Kemp, Woodman and Grabau. 



The paper has been published as pages 161-224 of this volume. 



Dr. E. 0. Hovey gave a brief summary account of the Washington 

 meeting of the Geological Society of America and a few of the papers 

 presented there. 



Professor A. W. Grabau gave a similar account of the Washington 

 meeting of the Paleontological Society. 



The Section then adjourned. 



Edmund Otis Hovey, 



Secretary pro tern. 



SECTION OF BIOLOGY. 



15 Januaey, 1912. 



Section met at 8 :15 p. m., Vice-President Frederic A. Lucas pre- 

 siding. 



