,9o8.] MINUTES. 17 



" The Completion of the Lunar Theory and the Tables of the 

 Moon's Motion to be made therefrom," by Professor Ernest W. 

 Brown, of New Haven. 



" The Relative Advantages of Various Forms of Telescopes for 

 Solar Research," by Professor George E. Hale, of Solar Observa- 

 tory, Pasadena, Cal. 



" Problems of Three Bodies on Surfaces," by Professor Edgar 

 Odell Lovett, of Princeton, N. J. 



" A Living Representative of the Most Primitive Ancestors of 

 the Plant Kingdom," by George T. Moore, Ph.D., head of the De- 

 partment of Botany, Marine Biological Laboratory, Wood's Hole, 

 Mass. 



Afternoon Session. 



The following papers were read : 



" The Effect of an Angle in a Wire Conductor on Spark Dis- 

 charge," by Professor Francis E. Nipher, of St. Louis. 



" Absorption Spectra of Solutions," by Professor H. C. Jones, 

 of Baltimore (introduced by Professor Ira Remsen). 



" The Effect of Certain Preservatives upon Metabolism," by 

 Harvey W. Wiley, M.D., of Washington. 



" A Vedic Concordance," by Professor Maurice Bloomfield, 

 of Baltimore. 



" On the Lost Tribes of Israel and the Aryan Ancestry of Jesus 

 and His First Disciples," by Professor Paul Haupt, of Baltimore. 



" The Sign and Name for Planet in Babylonia," by Professor 

 Morris Jastrow, Jr., of Philadelphia. 



" Mediaeval German Sculpture in the Germanic Museum of 

 Harvard University," by Professor Kuno Francke, of Cambridge. 



" Notes on Greek Vases in the Museum of Science and Art of 

 the University of Pennsylvania," by Professor William N. Bates, 

 of Philadelphia (introduced by Professor Wm. A. Lamberton). 



