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consists in identifying each device known to him, which he does by writ; 

 ing the appropriate number before each name. 



Both of tliese tests liave only been begun and the data thus far gath- 

 ered does not warrant any further conclusions than those reported in the 

 monograph referred to above. 



Section then adjourned. E. H, Lowie^ 



Secretary. 



BUSINESS MEETING 



6 March, 1916 



The Academy met at 8:15 p. m. at the American Museum of ISJatural 

 History, Vice-President Ernest E. Smith presiding. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 



The following candidate for Associate Membership, recommended by 

 the Council, was duly elected: 



Adolph Elwyn, Hoagland Laboratory, Brooklyn. 



The Secretary reported the following death : 



Nathaniel C. Nash, Life Member since 1910, died 10 October, 1915. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



Henry E. Crampton, 

 Acting Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OP ASTEONOMY, PHYSICS AND CHEMISTEY 



6 March, 1916 



Section met at 8 :20 p. m., Vice-President Ernest E. Smith presiding; 

 The following program was- offered : 



Victor C. Myers, The Chemical Composition of the Blood in 

 Diseases of the Kidney. 



James P. Atkinson, Food Poisons. 



G. A. Reichling, Unusual Meteorological CJonditions Ob- 



served DiTRiNG A Winter-Flight in a Tractor 

 Biplane. 



Summary of Papers 



Dr. Myers stated that normally the non-protein nitrogen of the blood 

 in the human subjects amounts to 35-30 mg., the urea nitrogen to 12-15 

 mg.. the uric acid to 2-3 mg.. the creatinine to 1-2.5 mg. and creatine to 



