PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY AND AFFILIATED 



SOCIETIES 



WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



BOARD OF MANAGERS 



The 234th meeting of the Board was held on November 24, 1919. 

 In accordance with a suggestion transmitted by the Librarian of Con- 

 gress, a set of the pubHcations of the Academy was sent to the hbrary 

 of the University of Lou vain, destroyed by the German army in 19 14. 

 At the 235th meeting, on December 22, 1919, a committee consisting of 

 R. L. Faris, a. Knopf, S. A. Rohwer, and R. B. Sosman was appointed 

 to revise the "free Hst" of the Journal. At the 236th meeting, held 

 on January 26, 1920, the budget for 1920 was adopted, and the following 

 appointments for the year 1920 were announced: 



Executive Committee: The President, Treasurer, and Corresponding 

 Secretary, ex officio; William R. Maxon and T. Wayland Vaughan. 



Committee on Meetings: H. H. Kimball, CJtairman; W. S. Eichel- 

 BERGER, H. L. Shantz, J. R. SwANTON, and R. C. Tolman. 



Committee on Membership: L. A. Fischer, Chairman; W. M. 

 Clark, S. A. Rohwer, J. N. Rose, and Carl Voegtlin. 



Editor of Journal, 1920-1922: Alexander Wetmore. 



The Board elected the following Vice-Presidents to represent societies 

 which had not presented nominations at the Annual Meeting : Botanical 

 Society, Lyster H. Dewey; Institute of Electrical Engineers, Francis 

 B. SiLSBEE; Columbia Historical Society, Allen C. Clark; Medical 

 Society, Francis R. Hagner. 



At the 237th meeting, held on February 9, 1920, the Board voted 

 funds in payment for the publication of the Preliminary Report of the 

 Federal Government Section of Engineering Council's Committee on 

 Classification and Compensation of Engineers, published by Mr. J. C. 

 HoYT with aid from several of the affiliated societies of the Academy, 

 and distributed to all of their membership. The Standing Rules of the 

 Board were amended to provide for the appointment of the Committee 

 on Meetings in June, instead of in January, as heretofore. 



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