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son, J. C. Pfister, J. D. Prince, H. G. Piffard, M. I. Pupin. Ivan 

 Sickels, ]M. A. Starr, G. T. Stevens, C. A. Strong, F. B. 

 Sumner, \V. G. Thompson, C. C. Trowbridge, J. F. Woodhull, 

 E. R. VonXardroff: that the Council had prepared a list of 

 nominations for officers (which was read), which would be mailed 

 to members or the Academy one week before the Annual Meet- 

 ing. 



The Secretary' read a letter from the Secretary of the Scien- 

 tific Alliance, relating to the establishment of The Herrman 

 Fund for scientific research. A copy of the letter is appended. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



Henry E. Cramptox, 

 Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF ASTRONOMY, PHYSICS AND 



CHEMISTRY. 



December i, 1902. 



Section met at 8:30 P. !M., Charles Lane Poor presiding. The 

 minutes of the last meeting of Section were read and approved. 



The following program uas then offered : 



G. W. Ritchey, Recent Results in Astronomical Photog- 

 raphy WITH THE Forty-inch Refractor and with the Two- 

 foot Reflector of the Yerkes Observatory. 



Summary of Paper. 



Mr. Ritchey exhibited with the lantern some excellent pho- 

 tographs taken by him with the instruments of the Yerkes 

 Obsenatory. The two-foot mirror of silver on glass was 

 ground some time ago by Mr. Ritchey himself, and the mount- 

 ing of it was made in the observatory workshop from his 

 designs. Since the reflector was mounted two or three years 

 ago, many exceptionally fine photographs have been taken of 

 star groups, clusters and nebulae, which rival those superb 

 photographs of Keeler. Especially interesting were the photo- 

 graphs of Nova Persei, which showed the changes in the nebu- 

 losity which surrounds this interesting new star. 



