[Annals N. V. Acad. Sci., XIII, No. 7, pp. 431--516, Feb. 12, 1901.] 



RECORDS OF MEETINGS 



OF THE 



NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



January, 1900, to December, 1900. 



Richard K. Dodge, Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF BIOLOGY. 

 January 8, 1900. 



Section met at 8:15 P. M., Professor F. S. Lee presiding. 

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

 proved. The following program was then offered : 



David Griffiths, Structure and Development of the 



SORDARIACE.E. 



F. S. Lee, The Survival of Muscle after Somatic 

 Death. 



Wm. J. Gies, The Influence of Protoplasmic Poisons on 



THE P^ORMATION OF LyMPH. 



Bashford Dean, On the Egg of the Myxine Glutinosa. 

 F. B. Sumner (By Title), Kupfer's Vesicle in Relation 

 TO Gastrulation and Concrescence. 



Summary of Papers. 



Mr. David Griffiths spoke of the structure of certain species 

 of the Sordariaceae and briefly reviewed the work which has 

 been done on the group. Certain species were taken as types 

 of the principal genera, and their life history traced ; So7^daria 

 finicola^ Podospora copropJdla^ Hypocopra eqiioruni and Spororuda 

 intermedia being spoken of specially. Some time was devoted 



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