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SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 

 December 2, 1904. 



Section met at 8:25 P. M., Vice-President Kemp presiding. 



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

 approved. 



The Section held a special meeting, at which 200 members 

 and visitors were in attendance. The meeting was called to 

 order at 8:25 P. M., and the programme of the evening w^as at 

 once taken up. This consisted of a lecture by Professor Albrecht 

 Penck, of the Imperial University at Vienna, who is an Honorary 

 Member of the Academy. 



The speaker discussed " The Glacial Surface Features of the 

 Alps," and gave a brief summary of some of the results of the 

 twenty years of masterly work which has been done by him and 

 under his direction in the Tyrol. Professor Penck discussed in 

 popular language the nature of the valleys of the Alps and 

 showed by means of lantern slides and a 'diagram how the 

 glaciers have widened and deepened portions of their rocky 

 basins and produced lakes. 



After a vote of thanks to the distinguished guest . of the 

 evening, the Section adjourned. 



Edmund O. Hovey, 



Secretary. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



December 5, 1904. 



The Academy met at 8:30 P. M., Professor William Hallock 

 presiding. 



The minutes of the previous business meeting were read and 

 approved. 



The Secretary reported from the Council as follows : 



That it was proposed to amend Chapter V, Section i, of the 

 By-Laws, by omitting the words " Every Active Member shall 

 pay an initiation fee of $5, within three months of his election or 

 such election shall be void." 



That the Council, as required by the By-Laws, had prepared 

 the following nominations for officers for the coming year : 



