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pay annually the sum of one hundred dollars towards the sup- 

 port of the Journal; the editing- and issuing- of the Journal is 

 to remain in the hands of the Elisha Mitchell Society; the 

 Journal is to retain its name, but upon the title cover will 

 appear in small letters, "Official Publication of the North 

 Carolina Academy of Science;" each member of the Academy 

 is to receive gratis one copy of the Journal; associate mem- 

 bers are to receive only the first number of the volume follow- 

 ing- the meeting- at which the subscriber was an associate. 



An invitation was extended to the North Carolina Academy 

 of Science to hold its next annual meeting- at the University 

 November 12th and 13th. Professors Gore, Coker and Wheeler 

 were appointed a coinmittee of arrangements. 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing- year : 



President, Charles Baskerville. 



Vice-President, J. E. Latta. 



R>. ►rding' Secretary, A. S. Wheeler. 



Charles Baskerville, 

 Recording Secretary. 



JANUARY 12, 1904. 



Mr. /. E. Latta, Vice-President, in the chair. 

 The following- paper was presented : 



Elements, Verified and Unverified. Charles Baskerville. 



A. S. Wheeler, 

 Recording Secretary. 



FEBRUARY 9, 1904. 



Professor Charles Baskerville, President, in the chair. 

 The following papers were presented : 

 Mendel's Law of Heredity. W. C. Coker. 

 Incomplete Division in Vertebrate Animals. H. V. Wilson. 

 Composition of Coastal Plain Sands in Relation to Distance 

 from Existing- Shore Lines. Collier Cobb. 



A. S. Wheeler, 

 Recording Secretary. 



