NOV. 4, 1921 proceedings: academy 443 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY AND AFFILIATED 



SOCIETIES 



WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



BOARD OF MANAGERS 



At the 24Sth meeting of the Board, on February 28, 1921, the Editors of 

 the Journal were authorized to classify the Academy's excess stock of sepa- 

 rates from the Proceedings (1898-1911) and to publish lists of these papers 

 on the back cover of the Journal, offering the papers for sale for a limited 

 period at prices from one third to one fifth the regular price. (Publication 

 of the lists was begun on March 4.) Messrs. C. I,. Alsberg, F. V. CoviLLE, 

 H. S. Graves, A. D. Hopkins, and E. W. Nelson were appointed a committee 

 to represent the Academy at the Lubin Memorial Meeting. At the suggestion 

 of the Botanical Society, the President appointed a committee to investigate 

 the facts regarding the sending of scientific literature to Russian scientists, 

 the committee consisting of A. S. Hitchcock, Vernon Kellogg, and Raphael 



ZON. 



The 249th meeting, on March 14, and the 250th, on March 28, were de- 

 voted to elections of members and routine business. The committee to 

 consider transmission of literature to Russia reported on the existing situation, 

 but not enough information was available to warrant the Board in adopting 

 any definite proposals for action. At the 251st meeting, on May 2, the Board 

 voted to endorse the Mt. Hamilton project for a National Botanic Garden, 

 and Messrs. H. S. Graves, F. V. Coville, and T. Wayland Vaughan were 

 appointed a committee to cooperate with the Washington Society of the 

 Fine Arts and any other interested organizations in forwarding the project. 

 Mr. A. S. Hitchcock resigned as Vice-President from the Botanical Society 

 on account of absence from the United States, and Mr. Michael Shapo- 

 VALOV was elected to succeed him. 



At the 252d meeting, on May 23, the committee on distribution of the 

 Proceedings reported that sets in libraries which had been on the mailing-list 

 had been completed in about 90 cases, and that complete sets were being 

 offered to a selected list of libraries which had not formerly received the 

 publication. 



The following Committee on Meetings for the season 1921-1922 was an- 

 nounced at the 253d meeting, on August 1 : W. J. Humphreys, Chairman; 

 W. D. BiGELOw, O. C. Merrill, A. C. Spencer, and W. T. Swingle. The 

 preliminary^ report of the committee on a list of popular books in science for 

 the Public Library was considered in detail, and approved for publication 

 in the Journal as a tentative list subject to revision.^ Election of members 

 and routine business were taken up at the 254th meeting, on September 26. 



The following persons have become members of the Academy since the 

 last report in the Journal (March 19, 1921, p. 139): 



Dr. Sumner Gushing Brooks, Hygienic Laboratory, U. S. Public Health 

 Service, Washington, D. C. 



' See This Journal U: .353-.366. September li), 1921. 



