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Chemistry, Columbia University, New York. (See p. 491.) 

 " Some Economic Aspects of the American Food Supply," by 

 J. Russell Smith, Ph.D., Professor of Industry, Wharton 

 School of Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsyl- 

 vania. (See p. 501.) 

 " Food Control and Conservation in the United States Army," 

 by John R. Murlin, Major, Sanitary Corps, U. S. A, 



Stated Meeting, May j, 1918. 



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



Dr. Philip P. Calvert, a newly elected member, subscribed the 

 Laws and was admitted into the Society. 



Acknowledgments of election were received from 



Philip Powell Calvert, Ph.D. 



William T. Councilman, A.M., M.D., LL.D. 



Victor George Heiser, M.D. 



Herbert C. Hoover, B.A., LL.D. 



Ales Hrdlicka, M.D., Washington. 



J. Percy Moore. 



Louis Valentine Pirsson, M.A. 



George Harrison Shull, B.S., Ph.D. 



Joseph Swain, B.L., M.S., LL.D, 



William Roscoe Thayer, A.M., LL.D., Litt.D., L.H.D. 



Samuel Wendell Williston, A.M., M.D., Ph.D., Sc.D. 



The following papers were read : 



" Inorganic Evolution from the Astronomic and Atomic As- 

 pects," by Eric Doolittle, C.E., and Arthur W. Goodspeed, 

 Ph.D., which were discussed by Professor Snyder, Presi- 

 dent Scott, Mr. Willcox, and Dr. Keen. 



Stated Meeting, November i, 1918. 



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



Professor J. Percy Moore and President Joseph Swain, newly- 

 elected members, subscribed the Laws and were admitted into the 

 Society. 



