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Table IV 



Amount recalled Shortness of first practice period r- .186 

 Amount recalled Amount done during minutes 4-8 ,231 

 Amount recalled Eate of work during last five min- 

 utes of first practice period .355 

 Amount recalled Rate of work during last five min- 

 utes of second practice period .538 



The Section then adjourned. 



Egbert H. Lowie, 



Secretary. 



BUSINESS MEETIXG 

 6 December, 1915 



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

 History, Yice-President Charles P. Berkey presiding. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 



The following candidate for Active membership in the Academy, rec- 

 ommended by Council, was duly elected : 



Isaiah Bowman, American Geographical Society. 



The Secretary reported the death of Theodor Boveri, Honorary Mem- 

 ber since 1910, on 16 October, 1915, and stated that the Council at its 

 meeting on 6 December had requested Professor Edmund B. Wilson to 

 form a suitable minute to be spread on the records of the Council. 

 The Academy then adjourned. 



Hexrt E. Cramptox, 



Acting Recording Secretary. 



SECTIOiST OF GEOLOGY AXD MIXEEALOGY 



6 December, 1915 



Section met at 8 :20 p. m., Professor J. E. Woodman presiding. 



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



The following programme was then offered : 



J. E. Woodman, Metallurgical Limestoxes of Xova Scotia. 



A. K. Lobeck, Position of the New England Peneplain in 



THE White Mouxtain Eegiox. 



Chester A. Reeds, The J. M. Eosales's Collection of Mesozoic 



Fossils from the Eastern Eange of the Co- 

 lombian Andes. 



