844 RECORDS. 



ited and read an interesting letter signed by Lamarck in 1796, 

 at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. Professor Lloyd 

 described a species of violet with a tendency to form three spurs 

 of equal radial symmetry. Dr. MacDougal described the 

 primrose plants, illustrating the mutation theory of de Vries, 

 which are now growing at the New York Botanical Garden. 



Maurice A. Bigelow, 



Sca^cfaiy. 



SECTION OP^ GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 



May 16, 1904. 



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

 ing. The minutes of the last meeting of the Section were read 

 and approved. 



On motion, duly seconded, it was voted that the Academy 

 apply for registration in the Eighth International Geographic 

 Congress to be held in Washington, New York, etc., in Septem- 

 ber, 1904, and that the Chairman appoint the allowed number 

 of delegates, himself to be one of the number. The Chairman 

 appointed Professor J. J. Stevenson and Dr. E. O. Hovey to 

 serve with him as delegates, three appearing to be the number 

 allowed to the membership of the Academy. 



In the absence of Mr. J. W. Gidley, who was to have read a 

 paper entitled " Some Observations on the So-called Tertiary 

 Lake Basins of Western North America," the program of the 

 evening was necessarily changed from that which had been given 

 in the printed announcement. 



The following program was offered : 



W. D. Mathew, PIxhibition of a Series of Foot-bones 



ILLUSTRATING THE EVOLUTION OF THE CaMEL, RECENTLY IN- 

 STALLED IN THE Hall of Vertebrate Pal.eontology of the 

 American Museum of Natural History. 



E. 0. Hovey, Some Erosion Phenomena in St. Vincent 

 AND Martinique. 



J. Howard Wilson, Some of the Localities in France and 

 England where Monuments of the Late Stone and Bronze 

 Ages have been found. 



