1917] Proceedings of New York Meeting • 99 



The time having arrived for the annual business session, the 

 Executive Committee presented the reports of the Secretary, 

 the Treasurer, the Managing Editor of the Annals, and of 

 the Thomas Say Foundation, as follows: 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 

 The foUowirg members have been elected since the last annual meeting: 



On July 17, 1916: 

 Frederick McMahon Gaige Shirley Lowell Mason 



Walter Allen Price Lewis G. Gentner 



On August 20, 1916: 

 Gonzalo Martinez Fortun Walter Norton Hess 



Ernest Melville Du Porte Emerson Liscum Diven 



On December 26, 1916: 



H. B. Parks Paul Hugo Isidor Kahl 



Maurice E. Hays Kirby Lee Cockerham 



C. W. Collins W. B. Williams 



Ray T. Webber Seymour Hadwen 



Chester Ittner Bliss Herbert B. Hungerford 



Rudolf William Glaser Christian E. Olsen 



Albert I. Good Phares H. Hertzog 



Howard L. Clark William Bernard Donohue 



Frank R. Cole Wallace Larkin Chandler 



Ralph Robinson Parker George Felix Arnold 



Dettmar Went worth Jones Max Kisliuk 



Edward Riley King J. A. Corcoran 

 Everett Elmer Wehr 



Total. 33. 



The following members have resigned: 



H. H. Brehme W. A. Hooker 



Geo. Franck R. N. Wilson 



Total, 4. 

 The following have died: 



Francis Marion Webster, President Ignaz Matausch 



A. J. Cook R. M. Moore 



J. B. Williams 



Total, o. 

 Dropped for non-payment of dues, 11 members. Net gain, 14. 

 No Fellows or Honorary Fellows were elected in the yeat". 

 On December 14, 1916, the total membership of the Society was 578. Some 

 idea of the interest of the members may be gained from the following figures 

 regarding the payment of dues. 



Disregarding for the moment the foreign members, life members, and hon- 

 orary fellows, there were 10 members who were paid in advance at least for 1917; 

 414 were paid up for 1916; 54 were paid up for 1915; while 37 were owing for more 

 than two years. These last are liable to suspension, but it costs the Society 

 nothing to carry them, as they do not receive the Annals while in arrears, and the 

 Secretary is endeavoring to revive their interest. 



The year just closing has been a trying one for many of our foreign members, 

 and yet their interest has been manifested in a gratifying manner. Out of 54 

 classed as foreign members (and in this classification the Secretary has rather 

 arbitrarily included Cuba, Porto Rico, and Hawaii with continental North 

 America, and not as foreign territory), the number who have paid dues during 

 the year is just one-half, or 27. Several of these are in the war, and one sent his 

 communication from the trenches. Regarding the other foreign members, obvi- 



