758 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



One thousand and seventy-first Meeting. 



March 13, 1918. — Stated ^Meeting. 



The Academy met at its House. 



The President in the Chair. 



There were thirty-five Fellows and one guest present. 



The following letters were presented by the Corresponding 

 Secretary: — from Sir Thomas Barlow, W. N. Shaw, and C. S. 

 Sherrington, accepting Foreign Honorary Membership; from 

 O. K. O. Folin, resigning Fellowship; from the Kansas Academy 

 of Science, inviting a delegate from the Academy to attend its 

 semi-centennial anniversary at Lawrence, ]\Iarch 15 and 16, 1918. 



A biographical notice of William Sellers by F. R. Hutton was 

 presented. 



The Chair announced the appointment of W. W. Campbell, to 

 represent the Academy at the semi-centennial of the University of 

 California, in place of A. A. Noyes, who was unable to attend. 



It was also announced that an invitation to attend the meeting 

 of the Academy had been extended to the Archbishop of York, 

 who replied that owing to his departure from the city, he was 

 unable to accept. 



On motion of A. C. Lane, it was 



Voted, That the following request be sent to the United States 

 Fuel Administration. 



"We the undersigned respectfully request the Ignited States 

 Fuel Administration, that if it fixes prices for coal at the mine and 

 to the consumer, it give a heating value, to be determined, if re- 

 quired, by analysis or calorimeter test, which within reasonable 

 limits of variation, such coal shall have; that deductions from, or 

 additions to these prices be permitted for coal that proves by test 

 to be of substantially different heating value; and since extra 

 heating value is worth nearly as much at the mine as at the point 

 of consumption (costing no more for freight, storage, and handling) 

 buyers should be allowed to pay the mines for the extra heating 

 value they may wish in proportion to the amount the coal is worth 

 at the point at which it is to be consumed. This would have the 

 public advantage that it would lead the mines to ship the most 



