PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY AND. AFFILIATED 



SOCIETIES 



THE WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



The 81st meeting of the Washington Academy of Sciences, the fif- 

 teenth annual meeting, was held at the Cosmos Club, 8 p.m., January 

 16, 1913, with President F. V. Coville in the chair and 40 members 

 present. The minutes of the previous annual meeting and of all sub- 

 sequent meetings were read and approved. The reports of the officers, 

 of the Auditing Committee and of the Editors of the Journal were also 

 read and approved. , 



The report on the ballot by mail for officers for 1913 showed the 

 following elections: President: O. H. Tittman; non-resident vice-pres- 

 idents, John Muir, F. W. Putnam; Corresponding secretary, Arthur 

 L. Day;^ recording secretary, W. J. Humphreys; treasurer, Alfred H. 

 Brooks; managers, class of 1916, Vernon Bailey, Fred. Eugene 

 Wright. 



The newly elected president, Mr. O. H. Tittman, then took the chair. 



The following were elected resident vice-presidents as nominated by 

 the affihated Societies: Anthropological Society, F. W. Hodge; Archae- 

 ological, Mitchell Carroll; Biological, E. W. Nelson; Botanical, Edgar 

 Brown; Chemical, C. E. Waters; Engineers, G. W. Littlehales; Entomo- 

 logical, A. L. Quaintance; Foresters, W. B. Greeley;^ Geological, T. W. 

 Stanton; Historical, James Dudley Morgan; Philosophical, C. G. Abbot.^ 



On motion by Mr. F. V. Coville, Dr. F. W. Clarke was asked to 

 address the Academy. In reply Dr. Clarke congratulated the Academy 

 on its several activities, and especially on the excellence of its Journal 

 and on its Exhibit of Apparatus, Methods and Results in the New 

 National Museum, March 28, 1912. He also expressed the desire that 

 a similar exhibit be held again this year. 



On motion by Dr. L. A. Bauer a vote of thanks was extended to the 

 Business Manager and to the Editors of the Journal for their splendid 

 work of the past year. 



The retiring president, Mr. F. V. Coville, then presented his address, 

 The formation of leaf-mold, which appears in full in this Journal 3: 77. 



W. J. Humphreys, Recording Secretary. 



1 Resigned. G. K. Burgess elected by Board of Managers, January 20, 1913. 



2 Elected by Board of Managers, January 20, 1913. 

 ' Elected by Board of Managers, January 20, 1913. 



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