PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY AND AFFILIATED 



SOCIETIES 



WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



The Board of Managers, at its meeting on January 21, 1918, adopted 

 the budget for the year 1918, increasing the allotments to the Journal 

 and the Committee on Meetings. The appointment of the following 

 committees was announced: 



Executive Membership Meetings 



L. J. Briggs Paul Bartsch W. F, G. Swann 



R. B. SosMAN C. L. Alsberg C. S. Hudson 



WiLLL\M Bowie G. W. Cook K. F. Kellerman 



G. K. Burgess W. J. Humphreys E. B. Phelps 



A. C. Spencer T. W. Vaughan E. W. Shaw 



Prof. Fridtjof Nansen, of the University of Kristiania, Norway, 

 now in Washington as Minister Plenipotentiary of Norway on special 

 mission to the United States of America, has been elected an honorary 

 member of the Academy. 



Messrs. 0. H. Tittmann and W. D. Hunter were elected vice- 

 presidents to represent the National Geographic Society and the En- 

 tomological Society of Washington, respectively. 



Robert B. Sosman, Corresponding Secretary. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 

 The 320th meeting was held at the Cosmos Club, April 25, 1917. 



informal communications 



F. E. Matthes read a greeting from Prof. Emmanuel de Margerie. 

 former president of the Societe Geographique de France, to the men of 

 science in America, acclaiming with enthusiasm the entrance of the 

 United States into the war. 



REGULAR program 



G. P. Merrill: The rarer constituents of meteorites. 



G. F. Loughlin: The relation of copper and zinc in the carbonate ore 

 at Ophir, Utah. (Published in U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 690-A.) 

 F. E. Matthes: The preglacial history of Yosemite Valley. 



The 321st meeting was held at the Cosmos Club, May 9, 1917. 



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