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Kinley Square. The subject was "Microscopic Organisms 

 and the Home." By means of slides, cultures and laboratory 

 utensils, Professor Peabody demonstrated to the pleased audi- 

 ence that although everything that we eat or drink is full of 

 minute life, the majority are not harmful, but otherwise. 



APRIL 15, 1915 

 Annual Meeting of the Society 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : 

 President: Dr. Henry M. MacCracken. J 7 icc-Presidcnts: 

 Hon. Douglas Mathewson, Hon. Thomas W. Whittle, Dr. 

 John H. Denbigh, Dr. William T. Hornaday, Dr. Alfred T. 

 Schauffler. Secretary: George E. Stonebridge. Correspond- 

 ing Secretary: Mrs. William W. Niles. Treasurer: Olin J. 

 Stephens. Councillors: Albert E. Davis, Dr. Nathaniel L. 

 Britton, Dr. Hugo Newman, Hon. Victor H. Paltsits, Walter 

 E. Hallett, Mrs. A. C. Fisk, Mrs. Robert L. Niles, Dr. Henry 

 M. Brown, Major Joseph I. Berry, Reginald Pelham Bolton, 

 Charles N. W'hinston, Mrs. William W. Niles, Mrs. Cyrus C. 

 Miller, William Stebbins Smith. 



The Treasurer submitted his annual report, which was 

 ordered filed. 



Mr. Albert E. Davis, Chairman of the Council, made a 

 report as to the activities of the Society during the preceding 

 year, which was ordered filed. 



Dr. N. L. Britton, Chairman of the Museum Committee, 

 reported that the collections of the Society had been conserved 

 and somewhat increased. He also stated that the control of 

 the Lorillard Mansion had passed from the Department of 

 Parks to the New York Botanical Garden, and presented the 

 following resolution adopted this day by the Board of Man- 

 agers of the New York Botanical Garden : 



Resolved, That the Director-in-Chief be, and he hereby is, 

 authorized to continue the permission formerly given the 

 Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences by the Commissioner of 



