426 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



The following candidates for membership in the Academy, recom- 

 mended b}' Council, were duly elected:- 



Active Me:mbership 



P. Maxwell Foshay, 34 Xassau Street, 



A. J. Goldfarb, College of the City of Xew York, 



Hermann J. Muller, Columbia Unirersityj 



J. Leon Williams, 220 West 42nd Street. 



The Acting Eecording Secretary reported the following deaths : 



James C. Fargo, Active Member of the Academy since 1878, died & 

 Februar}', 1915, 



Thomas H. Hubbard, Life Member of the Academy since 1905, died 

 19 August, 1915, 



Albert Plant, Active Member of the Academy since 1910, died 17" 

 June, 1915, 



Samuel Thorne, Active Member of the Academy since 1899, died 4 

 July, 1915, 



Charles T. Wills, Active Member of the Academy since 1897, died 

 31 August, 1915. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



Hexry E. Cea:mptox^ 



Acting Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF BIOLOGY 



11 October, 1915 



Section met at 8:15 P. :m.. Professor H. von W. Schulte presiding. 

 The following programme was then offered : 



A. J. Goldfarb, Experimextally Grafted Organisms : A Eeport of 

 Eecent Besearches. 



Professor Goldfarb said in abstract : The work of Koux, Morgan, 

 Driesch and others has raised numerous problems relating to the pro- 

 duction of half embryos from half eggs, half -size embryos, giant embryos 

 and other abnormal forms. Since 1910 the speaker had been experiment- 

 ing with sea-urchin eggs. By dissolving off the fertilization membrane- 

 and bringing the eggs into contact, fusion had taken place in varying 

 degrees, ranging from slight adhesion to complete union of two eggs into- 

 one. From such more or less united eggs develop larvge that lack certain 



