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._. Authors' separates shall not differ in any particular from the 

 regular edition. Any desired number may be ordered in advance 

 through the Committee on Publication, at the expense of the author, 

 and at a rate of cost agreed upon by the Committee and the printer. 



13. Authors shall receive, free of cost, thirty copies of their papers. 



TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY, 1907. 



To THE Washington Academy of Sciences : 



During the period from January 17, 1907, to January 16, 1908, the 

 Academy has held the following meetings : 



January 17, 1907 — Annual meeting for the election of officers, etc. 



January 31, 1907 — Meeting to hear a paper on "The Dominant 



Tectonic Lines of California," by Professor Andrew C. Lawson. 



Discussed by Dr. George F. Becker, Dr. Waldemar Lmdgren and 



Dr. Ralph Arnold. 



February 26, 1907 — Meeting to hear a paper on "Heredity and 

 Mendel's Law," by Dr. Charles Benedict Davenport. Discussed by 

 O. F. Cook and W. J. Spillman. 



April 2, 1907 — Meeting to hear a paper on " Modern Views of the 

 Ultimate Structure of Matter," by Dr. Joseph Larmor. Discussed by 

 Professor F. W. Clarke and Professor A. G. Webster. 



May 23 1907 — Meeting to commemorate the two hundredth anni- 

 versary of' the birth of Linnaeus. An address on the life and work of 

 the -reat naturalist was made by Professor Edward L. Greene; also 

 one on the relation of Linnaeus to zoology by Dr. William H. Dall. 



November 25, 1907 -Meeting to hear an address by Dr. David 

 Starr Jordan upon " The Human Harvest." 



January 7, 1908 -Meeting to hear an address on " Problems of the 

 Desert," by Dr. D. T. MacDougal. 



The Board of Managers has held nine meetings for the transaction 



of business. ,. . 1 u 



On January 8, 1907, the Board considered an application made by 

 the Washington Society of Engineers lor affiliation with the other 

 scientific societies and the Washington Academy of Sciences. The 

 Board considered this application favorably and directed that a vote be 

 taken by correspondence in accordance with Article VI, Sec. 2, of the 

 By-Laws. This vote was finally canvassed on April 10, 1907, result- 

 ing as follows : 



