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That the Council had voted to nominate no corresponding 

 members. 



That the Council had voted to nominate the following Fel- 

 lows to be voted upon at the Annual Meeting : 



Maurice A. Bigelow, Herman C. Bumpus, O. B. Hay, E. O. 

 Hovey, W. D. Matthew, S. J. Meltzer. 



The Recording Secretary read the list of nominations of 

 Officers prepared by the Council, and announced that it would 

 be mailed to members of the Academy two weeks before the 

 Annual Meeting. 



The proposed bill for amending the Charter, which is here- 

 with appended^ was submitted by the Council, with the recom- 

 mendation from the Council that it be approved by the Academy, 

 and that if approved the Academy authorize the Charter Revision 

 Committee to take such steps as are necessary to have the bill 

 enacted into law. 



It was voted to approve the bill, and to give the Charter Re- 

 vision Committee the authorization requested. 



Adjourned. 



Richard E. Dodge, 

 Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF ASTRONOMY, PHYSICS AND 



CHEMISTRY. 



February 3, 1902. 



Section met at 8:40 P. M., Professor Hallock presiding. 



The minutes of the last meeting of Section were read and ap- 

 proved. 



The following program was then offered : 



Mr. G. B. Pegram, Experimental Methods of Studying 

 Radio-activity. 



Summary of Papers. 



The paper of the evening consisted of a description of the 

 methods which have been employed in studying radio-active 

 substances, and also a brief summaiy of the more important 

 results which have been obtained. 



1 See Appendix. 



