68 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



AFTERNOON SESSION 



Reception at the White House and Presentation of 

 Medals by the President of the United States 



East Room, The White House, Washington, D. C. 



Wednesday, April 23, 1913, 3: 30 o'clock p. m. 



The company assembled in the East Room of the White 

 House. 



Dr. Ira Remsen : Mr. President, I have the honor to present 

 to you Dr. Woodward, the President of the Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington, and a member of the Council of the National 

 Academy of Sciences, who will in turn present to you those 

 who are to receive medals on the recommendation of the 

 Academy. 



We thank you, sir, for helping us in this ordeal. 



Dr. WOODWARD: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

 In compliance with the wishes of Professor James Craig Watson, 

 a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and an eminent 

 expositor of celestial mechanics and orbital astronomy and in 

 accordance with the provisions of a fund bequeathed by him to 

 the Academy, a gold medal and an accompanying honorarium 

 are awarded from time to time for meritorious work in astro- 

 nomical science. Such testimonials of appreciation and approval 

 have been hitherto bestowed upon Benjamin Apthorp Gould, 

 Edward Schonfeld, Seth Carlo Chandler and Sir David Gill. 



It is now the decision and the pleasure of the Academy to make 

 an award to Professor Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn of the Univer- 

 sity of Groningen, in recognition of his bold and penetrating 

 researches in the problem of the structure of the stellar universe. 

 Out of the apparent chaos of the stars he has shown us those ele- 

 ments of order and system which are fundamental to successful 

 procedure in the solution of this grand problem. To an indis- 



