RECORDS. 321 



SECTION OF BIOLOGY. 



March 14, 1904. 



Section met at 8:15 P. M., Professor Underwood presiding. 



The minutes of the last meeting of the Section were read 

 and approved. 



The following program was then offered : 



A. W. Grabau, Intra-Coionial Acceleration and Re- 

 tardation IN Development. 



F. B. Sumner and R. C. Osburn, The I^stablishment of 

 A Permanent Record of Systematic and Ecological Data 

 FOR Woods Hole. 



No abstracts of these papers have been received. 



M. A. BiGELOW, 



Secretary. 



SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 



March, 21, 1904. 



Section met at 8:15 P. M., Professor James F. Kemp pre- 

 siding. 



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

 approved. Twenty-two members and visitors were present 



The following program was then offered : 



H. H. Wotherspoon, Jr., The Recent Advances in the 

 Utilization of Peat and Lignite. 



Charles P. Berkey, A Geological Reconnoissance of 

 THE Uintah Reservation, Southeastern Utah. 



Summary of Papers. 

 Mr. Wotherspoon showed that the derivation of the fuel 

 supply of the word is becoming more and more important. 

 For years Europeans have been striving to devise a fuel to 

 take the place of wood and coal. Recent advances in the price 

 of coal in the United States have directed attention in this 

 country along the same lines. In F^urope and particularly 



