JULY 19, 1923 PROCEEDINGS: WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 295 
172D MEETING 
The 172d meeting of the Acaprmy, the 25th annual meeting, was held 
at the Administration Building of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 
the evening of Tuesday, January 9, 1923. The meeting was called to order 
by Vice-President CrirtmENDEN, who called upon the retiring President, 
W. J. Humpnureys, to give his address entitled, The murmur of the forest and 
the roar of the mountain. This has since been published in the Journal of 
the Academy (13:49-64. February 19, 1923). 
Following a brief intermission after the address, the annual business 
meeting of the Academy was held. The minutes of the 24th annual meeting 
were read and approved. The Corresponding Secretary, Francis B. SILSBEE, 
reported briefly on the activities of the Academy during the year. On 
January 1, 1923, the membership consisted of 6 honorary members, 3 pat- 
rons, and 563 members, one of whom was a life member. The total member- — 
ship was 572,’ of whom 355 reside in or near the District of Columbia, 201 
in other parts of the United States, and 7 in foreign countries. Thirteen 
resignations were accepted during the year, of which two were of resident 
members, and the Academy lost by death the following members: CHARLES 
BASKERVILLE, ALEXANDER GRAHAM Berti, Epwarp K. DunyaAm, WILLIAM 
Frear, Henry Marion Howr, Cuartes W. Watpner. During the year 
the Board of Managers held nine meetings. The decision of the Academy 
to discontinue the practice of attempting to print in the JourNaL abstracts of 
scientific papers emanating from Washington was explained, the principal 
objections to the former custom being that the collection of abstracts was 
by no means complete, and that such abstracting service was better covered 
by special journals devoted to obtaining complete abstracts of all articles in 
their respective fields. 
The report of the Recording Secretary, Wmn~1am R. Maxon, was read. 
There were held during the year-9 public meetings, several of them jointly 
with one or more affiliated societies, at which illustrated addresses were 
delivered. The titles and dates and the places of publication of the addresses 
were stated. 
The report of the Treasurer, R. L. Faris, showed total receipts of $5,609.12, 
and total disbursements of $4,916.17; the cash balance in hand December 
31, 1922, was $2,671.47. Investments of the Academy have a total par 
value of $15,036.37. The cost of maintaining and printing the Journal in 
1922 was $3,579.26, a slight increase over 1921. 
The report of the Auditing Committee, consisting of Oscar 5. ADAMs, 
E. F. Mvewier, and 8. J. Maucuty was read, and the reports of the Treasurer 
and the Auditing Committee were accepted. 
The report of the Editors of the Journal was read by Sipnry Patas, the 
senior Editor. In general, the editorial policy of the Board had remained 
as in 1921, the changes made in composition and in size of page having been 
continued. Also, the cost of producing illustrations had been borne by the 
authors, as previously. Volume 12 consists of 486 pages, as against 537 
published in Volume 11. Of original papers there were 52, one less than in 
1921. The departments of Proceedings and Scientific Notes and News were 
maintained, but the publication of abstracts had been discontinued early 
in the year, as explained above. 
The Committee of Tellers reported that the following officers had been 
elected for for 1923: President, T. WavLaAND VauGuan; Non resident Vice- 
Presidents, D. T. McDoveat, W. F. G. Swann; Corresponding Secretary, 
