PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY AND AFFILIATED 



SOCIETIES 



WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



The 127th meeting of the Academy was held in the Assembly Hall 

 of the Interior Department the evening of Friday, June 7, 191 8, the 

 occasion being an address by Professor William S. Franklin, of the 

 Department of ^hysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cam- 

 bridge, Massachusetts, entitled Some needed lines of research in me- 

 teorology. This address, which was informally discussed by Messrs. 

 C. F. Marvin and W. J. Humphreys, has since been pubhshed in the 

 Monthly Weather Review for October, 1918 (46: 449-453. 1919), 

 under the title, A much needed change of emphasis in meteorological re- 

 search. 



The 128th meeting of the Academy was held jointly with the Chem- 

 ical Society of Washington at the Administration Building of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington, the evening of Thursday, Janu- 

 ary 9, 1919. Dr. F. B. Power, retiring President of the Chemical 

 Society, delivered an illustrated address on The distribution and char- 

 acter of some of the odorous principles of plants. This lecture has sub- 

 sequently been published in the Journal of Industrial and Engineering 

 Chemistry (11: 344-352. April, 1919). 



The 129th meeting of the Academy, the twenty-first Annual Meet- 

 ing, was held at the Administration Building of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion of Washington, the evening of Tuesday, January 14, 1919, with 

 President Lyman J. Briggs in the chair. The minutes of the last 

 annual meeting were read and approved. 



The Corresponding Secretary, Dr. R. B. Sosman, reported that the 

 membership on January i, 1919, consisted of 6 honorary members, 

 4 patrons, and 506 members, one of whom was a life member. The 

 total membership was 516, of whom 315 resided in or near the District 

 of Columbia, 193 in other parts of the United States and in Canada, 

 and 8 in foreign countries. The net gain for the year was 37. During 

 the year the Academy lost by death 8 members: Henry Adams, 

 March 27, 191 8; Frank Baker, September 30, 191 8; Grove Karl 

 Gilbert, May i, 1918; John Harper Long, June 14, 191 8; William 

 Battle Phillips, June 7, 191 8; Richard Rathbun, July 16, 191 8; 

 Charles Richard Van Hise, November 19, 191 8; and Henry Shaler 

 Williams, July 31, 191 8. The Board of Managers held 12 meetings 

 during the year. The principal matters of general interest acted on by 

 the Board have been reported in the Journal. Among these matters 



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