via MINUTES. [April 24, 



report shall be regarded as nominations duly made for the respective 

 offices. But nothing herein contained shall be considered as restrict- 

 ing the right of any individual memher to make nominations as pro- 

 vided in the Laws. 



Members are invited to make to this Committee suggestions of 

 appropriate nominations and it shall be its duty to give full consider- 

 ation to the same. 



The President thereupon appointed the following members to 

 constitute the Committee: Dr. Hays, Prof. E. W. Brown, Prof. Tre- 

 lease, Dr. R. S. Woodward, Hon. Qiarlemagne Tower, Dr. Donald- 

 son, Prof. Gummere, Prof. Farlow. 



Aborning Session — 9:55 o'clock. 



Albert A. Michelson, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D., F.R.S. 



Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The following papers were read : 



" Phase Changes Produced by High Pressures," by Percy W. 

 Bridgman, Instructor in Physics in the Jefferson Physical 

 Laboratory, Harvard University. (Introduced by Prof. 

 Goo'dspeed.) Discussed by Professors Pickering, Hobbs, 

 Bogert, Noyes and Michelson. 



" The Influence of Atmospheric Pressure on the Forced Convec- 

 tion of Heat from Thin Electric Conducting Wires," by Arthur 



E. Kennelly, Sc.D., Professor of Electrical Engineering, Har- 

 vard University. 



" Some New Tests of Quantum Theory and a Direct Determina- 

 tion of h," by Robert Andrews MiUikan, A.M., Ph.D., Pro- 

 fessor of Physics, University of Chicago. (Introduced by 

 Prof. Goodspeed.) Discussed by Prof. Michelson, 



Discussion of "A Kinetic Theory of Gravitation " : (i) Gravi- 

 tation is Due to Intrinsic Energy of the Ether; (2) Trans- 

 mission of Gravitation Cannot be Instantaneous, by Charles 



F. Brush, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D., of Cleveland. Discussed by 

 Prof. Nipher. 



