vi MINUTES. 



Friday, April 22. 



Executive Session, p: 30 o'clock. 



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



Mr. Heber D. Curtis, Mr. Ambrose Swasey, and Dr. C. H. 

 Eigenmann, newly elected members, subscribed the Laws and were 

 admitted into the Society. 



The Officers and Council presented a report with a list of fifteen 

 nominees selected from the pending nominations for membership 

 whom they recommended for election this year. 



The reports of the Treasurer and of the Finance Committee were 

 presented and the appropriations for 1922, as recommended by the 

 Finance Committee, were then voted. 



Morning Session, 10 o'clock. 

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

 The following papers were read : 



" Propylene Glycol Dinitrate," by Charles E. Munroe, Ph.D., 

 LL.D., Professor of Chemistry, George Washington Uni- 

 versity, which was discussed by Prof. Noyes. 



"The Proteins of Living Plants," by Thomas B. Osborne, 

 Ph.D., Sc.D., Research Chemist, Conn. Agric. Exp. Station, 

 New Haven, which was discussed by Prof. MacDougal. 



"The Conduct of Mixtures of Nitrogen and Chlorine in a 

 Flaming Arc," by William A. Noyes, Director of Chemical 

 Laboratory, University of Illinois. 



" Discussion of a Kinetic Theory of Gravitation." 



" Some New Experiments in Gravitation," by Charles F. 

 Brush, Sc.D., LL.D., Cleveland, which was discussed by Pro- 

 fessors E. F. Nichols, Webster, Pupin and Goodspeed. 



"The Nature and Origin of the Fresh Water Fish Fauna of 

 Chili and the Pacific Slope of Ecuador," by Carl H. Eigen- 

 mann, A.M., Ph.D., Professor of Zoology, Indiana Uni- 

 versity. 



" The Relation between the Chromatin of the Nucleus and Sim- 

 ilar Materials in the Cell Body," by David H. Tennent, Ph.D., 



