MEETINGS OF THE ACADEMY AND AFFILIATED 



SOCIETIES 



WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



The 113th meetmg of the Academy, the nineteenth annual meeting, 

 was held at the Cosmos Club at 8.30 p.m., Thursday, January 11, 

 1917. In the absence of the Recording Secretary, the chair appointed 

 F. E. Wright acting secretary. The minutes of the last annual 

 njeeting were read and approved. 



The reports of the Corresponding Secretary, the Recording Secre- 

 tary, the Treasurer, and the Auditing Committee were read and ac- 

 cepted. William R. Maxon presented the report of the editors, which 

 was accepted. 



The tellers reported that the mail ballot had resulted in the elec- 

 tion of the following officers for the year 1917: 



President: W. H. Holmes. 



Non-resident Vice-Presidents: E. W. Morley and W. S. Thayer. 



Corresponding Secretary: F. E. Wright. 



Recording Secretary: William R. Maxon. 



Treasurer: William Bowie. 



Managers, Class of 1920: Paul Bartsch, C. S. Scofibld. 



Nominations for Vice-presidents from the affiliated societies were 

 then presented, and the following Vice-Presidents were elected: 



Anthropological: Walter Hough. 



Archaeological: Mitchell Carroll. 



Biological: W. P. Hay. , 



Botanical: A. S. Hitchcock. 



Chemical C. S. Hudson. 



Electrical Engineers: R. H. Dalgleish. 



Engineers: A. L. Baldwin. 



Entomological: W. D. Hunter. 



Foresters: George B. Sudworth. 



Geographic: 0. H. Tittmann. 



Geological: A. C. Spencer. 



Historical: Allen C. Clark. 



Medical: G. Wythe Cook. 



Philosophical: E. Buckingham. 



The meeting was then adjourned for five minutes, after which the 

 Academy met in joint meeting with the Chemical Society, with C. L. 

 Alsberg in the chair. R. B. Sosman presented his address as retiring 

 president of the Chemical Society, on the subject: Some problems of 

 the oxides of iron. The address has been published in the Journal of 

 the Academy (7: 55-72. 1917). 



R. B. Sosman, Corresponding Secretary. 



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