viii MINUTES. 



" A New Hoplophoneus from the Pipanotherium Beds." 



" Entelodonts from the Big Badlands of South Dakota in the 

 Geological Museum of Princeton Univ.," by W. J. Sinclair, 

 Ph.D., Department of Geology, Princeton University (in- 

 troduced by Prof. W. B. Scott), which was discussed by 

 Prof. Scott. 



"Rose Atoll, Samoa, in its Relation to Recent Change in Sea 

 Level," by Alfred G. Mayor, M.E., Sc.D., Director of De- 

 partment of Marine Biology, Carnegie Institution. 



" On the Origin of Laccolitic Mountains," by William H. Hobbs, 

 Sc.D., Ph.D., Professor of Geology, University of Michigan, 



" Intermittent Vision at Low Intensities," by Herbert E. Ives, 

 Ph.D., of the Western Electric Company, New York, which 

 was discussed by Mr. Brush and Prof. Webster. 



" A General Catalogue of Stellar Distances," by Frank Schles- 

 inger, Ph.D., Sc.D., Director of Yale University Observatory, 

 which was discussed by Prof. J. A. Miller. 



" Measurement of Star Diameters by Interferometer," by F. G. 

 Pease, of Mt. Wilson Solar Observatory, Pasadena, Cali- 

 fornia (introduced by Prof. E. B. Wilson), which was dis- 

 cussed by Professors Schlesinger and Webster. 



" Discussion of the Application of the IMethod of the Interfer- 

 ometer to Certain Astronomical Researches." 



a. " To Astrophysical Problems," by Henry Norris Russell, 

 Ph.D., Professor of Astronomy, Princeton University, 

 which was discussed by Professors Nichols and Webster. 



b. " To the Measurement of Double Stars," by Frank Schles- 

 inger, Ph.D., Sc.D., Director, Yale University Observatory, 

 which was discussed by Prof. Webster. 



c. " To the Determination of Stellar Parallaxes," by John A. 

 Miller, Ph.D., Director, Sproul Observatory, Swarthmore, 

 Pa. 



" Recent Astronomical Explorations in Space and in Time," by 

 Forrest Ray Moulton, Ph.D., Professor of Astronomy, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago. 



" I. Universal Volcanism and the Cosmic Atomic Numbers ; II. 



