14 WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY, 1902. 

 To THE Washington Academy of Sciences. 



GentlcTneii : In compliance with the By-Laws the Secretary has the 

 honor to submit this, \\'\q fourth annual report which covers the period 

 from January 17, 1901, to January 16, 1902. 



Six meetings of the Academy were held during the year, one a 

 memorial meeting to Dr. Samuel Clagett Busey, who died February 

 12, 1901, and the others to listen to addresses before or under the 

 auspices of the Academy. (For list of these see page 10.) 



Volume HL of the Proceedings (edition 1,200) was printed and a 

 part of the edition distributed to members and to a selected list of ex- 

 changes. The Joint Directory (Red Book) of the Academy and the 

 affiliated societies was also printed and distributed to members. The 

 cost of publication exceeded $3,000, a considerable part of which was 

 defrayed by subscriptions of private parties. 



The Board of Managers has held 18 meetings, at which the average 

 attendance 'was 13. Its work was mainly directed toward securing a 

 permanent home for the Academy and the affiliated societies, and in 

 perfecting plans and providing ways and means for promoting scienti- 

 fic post-graduate work in the city of Washington. 



The Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution having passed 

 a resolution favoring action by Congress with regard to affording 

 facilities for post-graduate study and research, the Board of the Acad- 

 emy expressed its gratification at this action. 



Influenced, doubtless, by this action of the Regents, the following 

 legislation was made by Congi"ess, act of March 3, 1901. 



" That facilities for study and research in the Government Depart- 

 ments, the Library of Congress, the National Museum, the Zoological 

 Park, the Bureau of Ethnology, the Fish Commission, the Botanic 

 Gardens, and similar institutions hereafter established shall be afforded 

 to scientific investigators and to duly qualified individuals, students, 

 and graduates of institutions of learning in the several States and Ter- 

 ritories, as well as in the District of Columbia, under such rules and 

 restrictions as the heads of the Departments and Bureaus mentioned 

 may prescribe." 



It being known that the George Washington Memorial Association 

 had amended its charter and appointed a committee of conference 

 with reference to the erection of a building, the Board appointed a 



