222 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



President, Emerson McMillin. 



Vice-Presidents, J. Edmund Woodman (Section of Geology and Miner- 

 alogy), Frederic A. Lucas (Section of Biology), Charles Lane Poor 

 (Section of Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry), R. S. Woodworth 

 (Section of Anthropology and Psychology). 



Corresponding Secretary, Henry E. Crampton. 



Recording Secretary, Edmund Otis Hovey. 



Treasurer, Charles F. Cox. 



Librarian, Ralph W. Tower. 



Editor, Edmund Otis Hovey. 



Councilors (to serve 3 years), Charles P. Berkey, Clark Wissler. 



Finance Committee, Emerson McMillin, F. S. Lee, G. F. Kunz. 



At the close of the elections, the Recording Secretary read the address 

 of the retiring President, Professor Franz Boas, upon "The History of 

 the American Race." 



After the reading of the presidential address, Mr. George Borup, a 

 graduate student at Yale University, related a few of his most interesting 

 experiences in connection with Admiral Peary's North Polar Expedition 

 of 1908-1909. At the close of his remarks, Mr. Borup gave a concise and 

 illuminating resume of the scientific problems remaining to be studied 

 in the North, including the actual visiting of Crocker Land, the land 

 which Peary saw from Grant Land in 1906 but which lay too far to the 

 westward for him to visit. Mr. Borup's remarks were illustrated with 

 lantern slide views. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



Edmund Otis Hovey, 



Recording Secretary. 



REPORT OF THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 



We have lost by death during the past year the following Honorary 

 Members: 



Sir Francis Galton, elected in 1910, 

 G. Johnstone Stoney, elected in 1904, 

 and the following Corresponding Members: 

 A. B. Meyer, elected in 1890, 

 Samuel H. Scudder, elected in 1876. 



There are at present upon our rolls 47 Honorary Members and 127 

 Corresponding Members. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Henry E. Crampton, 

 Corresponding Secretary. 



