ACTION OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS 



OF THE 

 WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



AUTHORIZING 

 THE McGEE MEMORIAL MEETING 



180th Meeting. January 11, 1913: "Mr. Pinchot presented by 

 invitation a plan for a memorial meeting in commemoration of the 

 life and service to science of Doctor W J McGee, 1 recently deceased. 

 It was proposed to arrange for a selected list of papers covering the 

 wide range of Doctor McGee's activities, and that the affiliated or- 

 ganizations of which he was a member be invited to participate. 

 After considerable discussion, all of which was favorable to the plan, 

 Doctor Kober moved that a special committee, of which Mr. Pinchot 

 should be chairman and President Coville a member, be appointed 

 by the President to have charge of this meeting. Carried." 



The following Committee was appointed January 20, 1913: 

 Frederick V. Coville, Henry Gannett, G. K. Gilbert, F. W. Hodge, 



J. A. Holmes, F. H. Newell, Gifford Pinchot, Chairman, Milton 



Whitney. 



1 Dr. McGee preferred to write his name without periods. 



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