MINUTES. ix 



Saturday, April 24. 



Executive Session, 9: 30 o'clock. 



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



Prof. Carl Eigenmann and William A. Setchell, recently elected 

 members, subscribed the Laws and were admitted into the Society. 



Pending nominations for membership were read and the Society 

 proceeded to an election. The tellers subsequently reported that the 

 following nominees had been elected to membership, viz. : 



Wilder D. Bancroft, Ph.D., Washington. 



Gary N. Calkins, Ph.D., New York. 



Edward Capps, Ph.D., LL.D., Princeton. 



Heber D. Curtis, A.M., Ph.D., Mt. Hamihon, Calif. 



Leonard E. Dickson, A.M., Ph.D., Chicago. 



Wilham Duane, A.M., Ph.D., Boston. 



Moses Gomberg, M.S., Sc.D., Ann Arbor. 



Frank J. Goodnow, A.M., LL.D., Baltimore. 



John F. Jameson, Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Washington. 



Douglas W. Johnson, Ph.D., New York. 



Vernon L. Kellogg, M.S., Stanford Univ., Calif. 



George F. Moore, A.M., LL.D., D.D., Cambridge. 



Paul Shorey, LL.D., Litt.D., Chicago. 



William C. Sproul, B.S., Ph.D., Chester, Pa. 



Pope Yeatman, M.E., Philadelphia. 



The following recommendation from the Officers and Council 

 was considered and adopted by unanimous vote : 



" That nominations for membership of persons not inhabitants 

 of the United States be suspended until the number of such mem- 

 bers be reduced to fifty and that thereafter the number of such mem- 

 bers shall not exceed fifty." 



Morning Session, 10 o'clock. 

 George Ellery Hale, Ph.D., Sc.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 The following papers were read : 

 " The Problem of the Evolution of the Solar System," by 



