PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY AND AFFILIATED 



SOCIETIES 



THE WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



The 83d meeting of the Washington Academy of Sciences was held 

 at the Cosmos Club, Saturday evening, March 1, 1913. The following 

 were elected resident members of the Academy: Bert S. Butler, F. C. 

 Calkins, William Mansfield Clark, Richard B. Dole, Clarence 

 N. Fenner, H. L. Ferguson, Arthur W. Gray, Henry Hinds, C. W. 

 Kanolt, Frank Leverett, F. L. Lewton, Gerald L. Loughlin, 

 Curtis F. Marbut, Herbert E. Merwin, M. J. Munn, J. B. Norton 

 W. A. Orton, N. S. Osborne, L. A. Rogers, William H. Ross, Robert 



B. SosMAN, J. W. Spencer, L. W. Stephenson, Rodney H. True, 

 Joseph B, Umpleby, Roger Clark Wells, Frank Wenner. 



After the election of new members, the Academy, in joint session with 

 the Philosophical Society, listened to an address by the Right Honor- 

 able James Bryce, 0. M., Ambassador to the United States, on The 

 physical aspects of Australia and New Zealand. 



The speaker's theme was a recent trip he had taken thru both 

 these countries, and he made it broad enough to cover the most diverse 

 subjects — the geography, the geology, the ethnology, the fauna, the 

 flora, the history and the political economy of these great countries, 

 all of which he made delightfully interesting by the aid of maps, charts, 

 pictures, and by his own clearness and accuracy of description. 



The 84th meeting of the Washington Academy of Sciences was held 

 at the Cosmos Club, Monday evening, March 31, 1913. Dr. Edward 



C. Franklin of the Hygienic Laboratory spoke on Ammonia, with 

 experiments. 



It was explained that many of the properties, both physical and 

 chemical, of liquid ammonia are similar to those of water; and in par- 

 ticular that just as we have water derived acids, bases, and salts, or a 

 water chemistry, so too there is an ammonia chemistry consisting of 

 an extensive series of ammonia derived acids, bases, and salts. The 

 parallel between the two chemistries, as Dr. Franklin's explanations 

 made clear and his many ingenious experiments demonstrated is com- 

 plete in every particular. 



The 85th meeting of the Washington Academy of Sciences was held 

 on April 23, 1913, at the Cosmos Club. Professor Dr. W. Wien of the 

 University of Wiirtzburg spoke on Recent theories on heat and radiation. 

 Published in full in this Journal 3: 273. 1913. 



W. J. Humphreys, Recording Secretary. 



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