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Douglass Burnett, 42 Livingston street, Brooklyn, N. Y.; 

 nominated by P. H. Dudley. 



The following paper was read by title, and referred to Publi- 

 cation Committee : The Northrop Collection of Crustacea, 

 by Professor Walter M. Rankin, of Princeton, illustrated by 

 three plates. 



The Section of Astronomy and Physics then organized. 



Richard E. Dodge, 



Sccretarv. 



SECTION OF ASTRONOMY AND PHYSICS. 

 March 7, 1898. 



Meeting was called to order by the Chairman, Mr. P. H. 

 Dudley, there being eighteen persons present. The first busi- 

 ness of the meeting was the election of officers for the ensuing 

 year. Nominations being declared open, J. K. Rees nominated 

 P. H. Dudley as Chairman. There being no other nominations, 

 the Secretary was empowered to cast one ballot for Mr. Dudley; 

 and he was declared elected Chairman. R. Gordon was nomi- 

 nated Secretary by W. Hallock. There being no other nomi- 

 nations, the Secretary was empowered to cast one ballot for him; 

 and he was thereby declared elected. 



The next business was the reading of papers. 



Romeyn Hitchcock read a paper entitled, Industrial Appli- 

 cations OF Oxygen in which he described a gas enriched by 

 oxygen for the purpose of increasing its heating power. He 

 compared the composition of this gas, with which experiments 

 have been carried on recently, with that of several of the usual 

 gases commercially employed for lighting and heating. After 

 brief discussion, W. Hallock described a Make-Circuit Pen- 

 dulum, and showed a working model of the same. After some 

 discussion, the meeting adjourned at 9:20 P. M. 



^ R. Gordon, 



Secretary of Section. 



