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Mr. George D. Birkhoff, Mr. Douglas Johnson, and Dr. Hideyo- 

 Noguchi, newly elected members, subscribed the Laws and were 

 admitted into the Society. 



The Society's Henry M. Phillips Prize of two thousand dollars 

 for the best essay on " The Control of the Foreign Relations of the 

 United States : The Relative Rights. Duties and Responsibilities of 

 the President, of the Senate and the House, and of the Judiciary, in 

 Theory and in Practice," was awarded to Quincy Wright, Esq., of 

 Minneapolis, Minnesota, w'th honorable mention of the essays of 

 John Mabry Alathews, of Urbana, Illinois, and Charles H. Burr, of 

 Philadelphia. 



The Hon. John Bassett Moore, Chairman of the Henry M. 

 Phillips Prize Essay Committee, presented to the Chair the author 

 of the Crowned Essay and made the formal announcement of the 

 award in the following remarks : 



It has fallen to my lot, as Chairman of the Committee on the 

 Henry M. Phillips Prize, to announce the award of the prize to the 

 successful competitor. The award has been made by a Special Com- 

 mittee, whose conclusions are embodied in the following report. 



John Bassett Moore 

 David Jayne Hill 

 COMMITTEE ON Simeon E. Baldwin 



THE HENRY M. PHILLIPS PRIZE John Cadwalader 



W. W. Keen 

 William B. Scott 



President Ex Officio 



To THE American Philosophical Society : 



The Committee appointed in connection with the Henry M. Phil- 

 lips Prize to be awarded for the best Essay on the following subject: 



" The Control of the Foreign Relations of the United 

 States : The Relative Rights, Duties and Responsibili- 

 ties of the President, of the Senate and the House, 

 and of the Judiciary, in Theory and in Practice " 



respectfully report as follows : 



A large number of Essays were received by the Society on or 

 before the 31st day of December, 1920. and of the number twelve 

 were found to have complied with the regulations governing the 



