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On motion this recommendation was unanimously adopted. 



Pending nominations for membership were read and the Society 

 proceeded to an election. 



The tellers reported that the following nominees had been elected 

 to membership : 



Residents of the United States. 



Henry Andrews Bumstead, A.B., Ph.D., New Haven. 

 Philip Powell Calvert, Ph.D., Philadelphia. 

 Clarence Griffin Child, Ph.D., L.H.D., Philadelphia. 

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

 Victor George Heiser, M.D., New York. 

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

 Ales Hrdlicka, M.D., Washington. 

 Gilbert Newton Lewis, A.M., Ph.D., Berkeley. 

 Theodore Lyman, Ph.D., Cambridge. 

 J. Percy Moore, Media, Pa. 

 Louis Valentine Pirsson, M.A., New Haven. 

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

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

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

 bridge. 

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



Foreign Residents. 



Joseph Jacques Cesaire Jofifre, Paris. 

 Paul Painleve, Paris. 

 Raymond Poincare, Paris. 



Morning Session, lo o'clock. 



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



Mr. William Roscoe Thayer, a newly elected member, sub- 

 scribed the Laws and was admitted into the Society. 

 The following papers were read : 



" Motions in the Stellar Systems Struve 1836 and Struve 208," 

 by Eric Doolittle, Professor of Astronomy, University of 

 Pennsylvania. 



"The Number of the Spiral Nebula," by H. D. Curtis, As- 



