16 MINUTES. 



[April 2S. 



that the following candidates had been elected to membership : 

 Residents of the United States: 



Martin Grove Burmbaugh, Ph.D., Philadelphia. 



Walter Bradford Cannon, A.M., M.D., Boston, Mass. 



James Christie, Philadelphia. 



William Hallock, Ph.D., New 'York City. 



Edward Washburn Hopkins, Ph.D., LL.D., New Haven, Conn. 



Leonard Pearson, B.S., V.M.D., M.D., Philadelphia. 



Josiah Royce, Ph.D., LL.D., Cambridge, Mass. 



Jacob G. Schurman, Ph.D., Ithaca, N. Y. 



Charles Henry Smyth, Ph.D., Princeton, N. J. 



Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D. (Gottingen), Cambridge, Mass. 



Henry Wilson Spangler, M.S., Sc.D., Philadelphia. 



Edward Anthony Spitzka, M.D., Philadelphia. 



John Robert Sitlington Sterrett, Ph.D. (Munich), Ithaca, New 

 York. 



Richard Hawley Tucker, Mt. Hamilton, California. 



Robert Williams Wood, Ph.D., Baltimore. 

 Foreign Residents: 



Ernest Nys, Brussels. 



Albrecht F. K. Penck, Ph.D., Berlin. 



Morning Session, lo.^o o'clock. 

 The following papers were read : 



"The Solution of Algebraic Equations in Infinite Series," by 

 Professor Preston A. Lambert, of Bethlehem, Pa. 



" The Investigation of the Personal Error in Double Star 

 Measures which depend on the Position Angle," by Mr. Eric Doo- 

 little, of Philadelphia. 



" Some Results of the Ocean Magnetic Work of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington," by Dr. L. A. Bauer, Director of the 

 Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington (introduced by 

 President Robert S. Woodward). 



" Photographs of Daniel's Comet," by Professor E. E. Bar- 

 nard, of Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, Wis. 



" Astronomical Photography," by Dr. John A. Brashear, of 

 Allegheny, Pa. 



