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Dr. Hovey continued to serve as the Secretary of the Geo- 

 logical Society of America and attended its annual meeting, 

 held at Amherst, Massachusetts, in December. 

 Scientific -^- e was one °* t ^ le Museum's representatives 



Societies and at the annual meeting of the American Associa- 

 Conventions tion of Museums in May, in Cleveland, Ohio. 

 Dr. Reeds has been the Secretary of the Faculty 

 of the Museum and Secretary of the Section of Geology and 

 Mineralogy of the New York Academy of Sciences. He at- 

 tended the meeting of the Geological Society of America, in 

 Amherst, where he read papers by President Osborn and 

 himself. 



The seismograph, which was presented to the New York 

 Academy of Sciences by Mr. Emerson McMillin and de- 

 posited here by the New York Academy of 

 eism g ap Sciences, has continued to be under the care of 

 Dr. Reeds. The earthquakes registered this year have been 

 few as compared with previous years. During the early 

 part of the year, Dr. Reeds reviewed the recent literature on 

 seismology, and Miss Greene brought the cataloguing of the 

 records up to the year 1917. The numerous inquiries as to 

 earthquakes show the continuance of public interest in the 

 subject. |-j ,, 



Among accessions, mention may be made of a series of 

 ammonites and other fossils from the Province of Tarapaca, 

 Chile, through Sefior Recaredo Amengual, In- 

 tendente of the province; the stump of a giant 

 tree fern from the Hamilton sandstone, Gilboa, New York, 

 through the New York City Board of Water Supply, J. Waldo 

 Smith, chief engineer; a 93-gram slice of the rare Warialda, 

 Australia, iron meteorite through George W. Card, Curator 

 of the Mining Museum, Sydney, N. S. W. 



Noteworthy additions to our meteorite collection have been 

 made through purchase, as follows : a 236-gram slice of the 

 Mt. Ayliff, South Africa, iron; a 76.5-gram slice of the 

 Rodeo, Durango, Mexico, iron; a 333-gram fragment with 

 crust of the Vigarano Piave aerolite from near Ferrara, Italy; 

 an 8.8-gram bit of the Alessandria, Valley of San Guiliano, 

 Italy, aerolite. 



