PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY AND AFFILIATED 



SOCIETIES 



WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



BOARD OP MANAGERS 



At the 238th meeting of the Board, held on March 8, 1920, changes 

 in the free Hst of the Journal were considered. Mr. F. V. Coville 

 was appointed as the Academy's representative at the inaugural 

 meeting of the Board of Surveys and Maps. Nominations to mem- 

 bership were considered at the 239th, 240th and 241st meetings, held 

 on March 22, April 5, and April 26. Reports from the committee on 

 preservation of the Shaw lily-ponds were presented at the 242d meeting, 

 on May 24, and it was voted that these reports be brought to the at- 

 tention of the Engineer Commissioner with the endorsement of the 

 officers of the Academy and of other affiliated societies that might be 

 interested. At the 243d meeting on June 28, Dr. S. F. Blake, of 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry, was appointed editor of the Journal 

 to fill the unexpired term of Dr. Alexander Wetmore, who had 

 resigned on account of expected absence from Washington for a year. 



The following persons have become members of the Academy since 

 the last report in the Journal (May 4, 1920, p. 275): 



Dr. Elliot Q. Adams, Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Mr. S. Henry Ayers, Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Norman L. Bowen, Geophysical Taboratory, Carnegie Insti- 

 tution of Washington, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Fay Cluff Brown, Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Nathan Augustus Cobb, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Mr. W. D. Collins, Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Mr. Leon Dominian, Department of State, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. W. E. FoRSYTHE, Nela Research Laboratory, National Lamp 

 Works of the General Electric Company, Nela Park, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Mr. Willis Ray Gregg, Weather Bureau, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Ralph Edwin Hall, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, 

 Akron, Ohio. 



Dr. David Breese Jones, Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. George W. McCoy, Hygienic Laboratory, Public Health Ser- 

 vice, Washington, D. C. 



Mr. Curtis C. McDonnell, Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



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