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HONORARY MEMBERS AND FELLOWS 



Under authority of the Constitution the Academy at the 

 last annual meeting (February 21, 1917) elected to Honorary 

 membership three of the most distinguished scientific men in 

 America, namely: Dr. John A. Brashear of Pittsburgh, Pa., 

 Dr. Robert S. Woodward, President of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion of Washington, and Dr. Frederic A. Lucas, Director of the 

 American Museum of Natural History. 



Section 4 of Article H of the Constitution provides for a 

 class of members to be known as Fellows. Any person trained 

 in the methods of science and engaged in scientific Avork who 

 has been a Member of the Academy one year or more may, 

 upon recommendation of the Council, be eligible for election by 

 letter-ballot as a Fellow of the Academy. Early in the year 

 the Academy availed itself of this privilege and the following 

 distinguished members were elected Fellows : 



Dr. John C. Branner, President Emeritus of Stanford Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. W. W. Campbell. Director of the Lick Observatory. 



Dr. David Starr Jordan, Chancellor Emeritus of Stanford 

 University. 



Dr. Wm. E. Ritter, Director of the Scripps Institution for 

 Biological Research. 



I am sure I voice the feeling of all when I say that the 

 Academy is proud to begin its roster of Fellows with the names 

 of these distinguished men of science. And it is equally ])roud 

 to number among its Honorary members the three distin- 

 guished men who were elected to that class. 



Despite the disturbed conditions throughout the world, the 

 Academy has during the past year continued to make progress. 



While the Academy is far from being in position to do all 

 that should be done in the matter of collecting and housing 

 material of scientific interest from land and sea, for study and 

 display, it has nevertheless done what it could with the means 

 at its command and makes grateful acknowledgment of the 

 fact that its work has been facilitated and the interest of the 

 public stimulated by many donations, among the most notable 

 of which are a contribution of $3500.00 by Mr. Herbert 

 Fleishhacker credited to his mother, Mrs. Delia Fleishhacker, 



