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sentative of the Royal Society of London. To aid the Royal 
Society in advising the British Government, he desired to be 
informed of the views of the National Academy, and the other 
constituent academies of the Association, as to whether it was 
deemed desirable to promote the project of the international 
seismological conference held in Strassburg in April, 1901, for 
the formation of an international seismological association. The 
object of this association was to be the solution of the various 
problems of seismology through the establishment of seismo- 
logical stations in various parts of the world.” 
The matter was referred to the Council of the National 
Academy, which appointed a committee to consider it. The 
committee reported in November. tonc. In the meantime meet- 
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Page 86, after “‘ Report on the Awarding of the Henry Draper Medal to 
George Ellery Hale”’ insert 
‘“The Henry Draper Gold Medal, awarded to W. W. Campbell, of Lick 
Observatory, Mount Hamilton, California, during the meeting of the National 
Academy of Sciences, held in Washington, April 16-18, 1906.”’ 
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Page 341 under ‘‘ Deceased Members”’, after Brown-Séquard insert BrusH, 
GeorGE JARVIS, elected 1868, died February 6, 1912. 
"See Rep. Nat. Acad. Sci. for 1902, pp. 17-19, where the letter and the plan of the 
seismological conference are given in full. 
Rep. Nat. Acad. Sci., for 1905, p. 16. 
