REPORT OF 
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
TO THE BOARD OF MANAGERS. 
THE Executive Committee respectfully submit the following 
report to the Board of Managers for the year 1917: 
The Committee regret to announce the death of one of 
the original members of the Board, Col. William Conant Church, 
who passed away on May 23, 1917. Col. Church was one of the 
founders of the Society, and was devoted to its interests. 
The Committee also report with regret the death of Mr. 
Grant Barney Schley, on November 22, 1917. Mr. Schley took 
great interest in the work of the Society, and was liberal in his 
donations to it. 
Resolutions passed on their deaths appear at the end of this 
report. 
Mr. William Woodward was elected to the Board of Man- 
agers at the Annual Meeting of the Society on January 9, 1917, 
to fill the vacancy in the Class of 1920, caused by the death of the 
late H. Casimir deRham. 
Mr. Frederic C. Walcott was elected to the Board of Man- 
agers at the Annual Meeting of the Board on January 16, 1917, 
to fill the vacancy in the Class of 1919, caused by the resigna- 
tion of Mr. F. Augustus Schermerhorn. 
MEMBERS. 
Notwithstanding the unsettled conditions during the past 
year, 217 new members have ‘been secured: 197 Annual Mem- 
bers, 18 Life Members, 1 Patron and 1 Fellow. Resignations and 
