MINUTES. ix 



" Photometric Measurements of Stars," by Joel Stebbins, Ph.D., 

 Professor of Astronomy, University of Ilhnois. (Intro- 

 duced by Prof. Henry Norris Russel.) (By title.) 



" Star Clusters and their Contribution to Knowledge of the 

 Universe," by Harlow Shapley, Ph.D., Mt. Wilson Solar 

 Observatory, Pasadena, Calif . (Introduced by Prof. George 

 E. Hale.) 



" Tatar Material in Old Russian," by J. Dyneley Prince, Ph.D., 

 Professor of Slavonic Language, Columbia University. 



Evening Session, 8.^0 o'clock. 



Arthur Gordon Webster, Sc.D., LL.D., Professor of Physics, 

 Clark University, Worcester, spoke on the " Recent Applications of 

 Physics in Warfare." 



Saturday, April 26, ipip. 



Executive Session, p.^o o'clock. 



WiLLLiAM B. Scott, D.Sc, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



Certain proposed amendments to the Laws and Rules of Admin- 

 istration and Order and Resolutions in reference to amendments to 

 the Charter, recommended by the Officers and Council were adopted. 

 Pending nominations for membershp were read and the Society 

 proceeded to an election. The tellers reported that the following 

 nominees had been elected to membership : 

 Residents of the United States: 



Robert Grant Aitken, Sc.D., Mount Hamilton, Cal. 



Joseph Charles Arthur, Sc.D., Lafayette, Ind. 



Edward W. Berry, Baltimore. 



James Henry Breated, A.M., Ph.D., Chicago. 



Ulric Dahlgren, M.S., Princton. 



WilHam Curtis Farabee, A.M., Ph.D., Philadelphia. 



John Huston Finley, LL.D., Albany, N. Y. 



Stephen Alfred Forbes, Ph.D., LL.D., Urbana, 111. 



Chevalier Jackson, M.D., Philadelphia. 



Dayton C. Miller, A.M., D.Sc, Cleveland. 



George D. Rosengarten, Ph.D., Philadelphia. 



