PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY AND AFFILIATED 



SOCIETIES 



THE WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



The 94th meeting of the Washington Academy of Sciences was held 

 in the lecture room of the Cosmos Club, the evening of December 3, 

 1914, with President David White in the chair, and about 40 persons 

 present. 



Mr. Henry S. Graves, Chief of the U. S. Forest Service, gave an 

 interesting and instructive talk on The place of Jorestry among natural 

 sciences. (This Journal, 5: 41. 1915.) 



The 95th meeting of the Washington Academy of Sciences, a joint 

 meeting with the Botanical Society of Washington, was held in the 

 lecture room of the Cosmos Club, the evening of Januaiy 5, 1915. The 

 hall was crowded, and many were turned away. 



Prof. J. C. BosE of India gave an illustrated lecture on The response of 

 plants. The lecturer dealt chiefly with his own extensive investigations 

 which have shown a remarkable parallelism between the response of 

 animals and the response of plants to a wide variety of stimuli. The 

 apparatus used and methods of work were explained, the conclusions 

 enumerated, and in one or two cases an actual plant response was shown 

 to the audience. 



The 96th meeting of the Washington Academy of Sciences, the 16th 

 annual meeting, was held in the lecture room of the Cosmos Club, the 

 evening of January 14, 1915, with President David White in the chair 

 and about 100 persons present. The following were elected officers for 

 the ensuing year: President, R. S. Woodw^ard; Corresponding Secre- 

 tary, George K. Burgess; Recording Secretary, W. J. Humphreys; 

 Treasurer, E. W. Parker; Vice-Presidents, representing the: Anthropo- 

 logical Society, F. W. Hodge; Archaeological Society, Mitchell Car- 

 roll; Biological Society, Paul Bartsch; Botanical Society, W. E. Saf- 

 ford; Chemical Society, Carl L. Alsberg; Electrical Engineers So- 

 ciety, E. B. Rosa; Engineers Society, William Bowie; Entomological 

 Society, W. D. Hunter; Foresters Society, G. B. Sudworth; Geographi- 

 cal Society, 0. H. Tittmann; Geological Society, Arthur Keith; His- 

 torical Societ,y, J. D. Morgan; Medical Society, Frank Leech; Philo- 

 sophical Society, W. S. Eichelberger; Non-Resident Vice-Presidents, 

 C. C. Nutting and E. C. Franklin; Managers, Class of 1918, L 

 Stejneger and W. H. Holmes. 



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