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largest ; Chililaya, Juli, Have. The lakes in the Andes are as high 

 as 16,000 feet and more. Color of water is much more beautiful 

 in the Andes than in the Alps, being emerald-green even under 

 a cloudy sky. The climate is wet and cold in summer and colder 

 and drier in winter. 



Waterfalls. — None of importance on the western slopes of 

 the Andes. None as picturesque as the Giessbach, the Handeck, 

 or even the Staubbach ; although some on the eastern slope may 

 compare with the latter in height. Waterfalls near Keara and 

 the San Juan in Yungas. 



A glance at the Bolivian Indians and the Fauna of the Andes. — 

 The Andes of Bolivia are truly alpine, they resemble in profile 

 and in the glaciers strikingly the Swiss Alps, the chief differences 

 lying and being in the greater elevation, in the aridity of the 

 western slope of the Andes compared with the close approach of 

 verdure to the very bases of the Alps, and in the lack of civilized 

 population ; the Indians being virtually masters of the soil, the 

 Spanish inhabitants not numerous, and the Indian radically op- 

 posed to ameliorations and progress. 



FEBRUARY 15. 1906. 



Stated Meeting. 



Albert E. Davis in the chair. 



Minutes of the January meeting read and approved. 



On recommendation of the council the following candidates 

 were elected members : Hon. Louis F. Haffen ; Professor Charles 

 Gray Shaw, Ph.D.. Dr. Frank Anson Becker, Samuel McMillan, 

 Mrs. Mary D. Fiske. 



The secretary announced the donation from the trustees of the 

 Bronx Free Library of an oak roll-top desk, and a library card- 

 catalogue case to the society. 



Lecture. 



* The Scenery and Local History of Washington Heights and 

 Inwood," illustrated, by Reginald Pelham Bolton, C.E., member 

 of the New York Historical Society, etc. 



HISTORIC SITES AS PUBLIC PARKS. 



No part of the city of New York possesses to-dav so much of 

 the actual evidences of its past career as the upper portion of the 

 island now known as Washington Heights and Inwood. 



