124 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [FEB. 3, 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 
The Secretary reported from the Council that the following 
persons were recommended as resident members : 
Dr. Franz Boas, Anthropologist of the American Museum of 
Natural History. 
Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia College. 
Prof. Wm. H. Carpenter, Columbia College. 
Dr. J. Caumeigt, 228 West 43d Street, New York City. 
Prof. Richard Gottheil, Columbia College. 
Prof. A. V. Williams Jackson, Columbia College. 
Prof. H. T. Peck, Columbia College. 
Prof. E. D. Perry, Columbia College. 
Prof. Thomas R. Price, Columbia College. 
Prof. Henry A. Todd, Columbia College. 
Mr. Gilbert van Ingen, Columbia College. 
Prof. J. R. Wheeler, Columbia College. 
Prof. Jacoby proposed the following new members : 
Dr. W. S. Dennett, 8 East 49th St., New York City. 
Dr. T. A. Humasson, 42 West 76th St., New York City. 
The Section of Astronomy and Physics then organized. 
After reading the minutes, the Secretary announced that Prof. 
Mayer was absent on account of sickness and that consequently 
the paper by him would be postponed until the next meeting of 
the section. 
Prof. Rees then called the attention of the section to the 
bill of Representative Hurley for the introduction and adop- 
tion of the metric system in the departments of the govern- 
ment and the country at large, and urged that some action be 
taken by the society looking to the endorsement of such a bill. 
It was decided to leave the discussion of this bill to a meeting 
of the Academy later in the evening. 
Prof. Harold Jacoby then read a paper “ On the Reduction of 
Astronomical Photographs taken near the Pole of the Heay- 
ens,” and explained that the method consisted in taking a photo- 
graph of the pole of the heavens with a telescope stationary 
with reference to the earth. Under these circumstances each 
