68 MINUTES. [April 20, 



Afternoon Session. 

 President Smith in the Chair. 



The tellers of election reported that the following candidates 

 had been elected to membership : 

 Residents of the United States. 



George Ferdinand Becker, Ph.D., Washington. 



Charles Benedict Davenport, Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. 



J. P. Crozer Griffith, M.D., Philadelphia. 



Frank Austin Gooch, Ph.D., New Haven. 



Herbert Spencer Jennings, Ph.D., Baltimore. 



James Playfair McMurrich, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 



Edward Laurens Mark, Ph.D., LL.D., Cambridge, Mass. 



John Bassett Moore, LL.D., New York. 



Francis Eugene Nipher, St. Louis. 



Horace Clark Richards, Ph.D., Philadelphia. 



John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Philadelphia. 



Allen J. Smith, M.D., Philadelphia. 

 Foreign Residents. 



Baron d'Estournelles de Constant, Paris. 



George Carey Foster, F.R.S., D.Sc, LL.D., Rickmansworth, 

 Herts, England. 



J, J. Jusserand, Washington. 



John C. Kapteyn, Groningen, Holland. 



Sir William Turner, K.C.B., D.Sc, D.C.L., F.R.S. 



The following papers were read : 



" On Continental Development,'.' by Bailey Willis, which was 

 discussed by Prof. Scott. 



" On Jonah's Whale," by Prof. Paul Haupt. 



" A Study of the Mean Temperatures of the Surface of the 

 Moon, Earth, and other Planets," by Prof. Cleveland Abbe. 



" Astronomical Photography," by Prof. E. E. Barnard. 



" Conservative Systems with Prescribed Trajections," by Prof. 

 E. O. Lovett. 



" Comparison of Results of Latitude Observations at the Sayre 

 Observatory, South Bethlehem, and at the Flower Observatory, 

 Philadelphia, from September 30, 1904, to September 3, 1906," by 

 J. H. Ogburn. 



