INTRODUCTORY PROCEEDINGS 



Minutes of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society oe Naval 

 Architects and Marine Engineers, Held at the Engineering Societies Build- 

 ing, New York City, Thursday and Friday, November 13 and 14, 1919. 



FIRST SESSION 



Thursday Morning, November 13, 1919 



The President, Rear Admiral Washington L. Capps, called the meeting to order at 

 10.20 a.m. 



The President: — Gentlemen, the thirty-seventh meeting of the Society of Naval 

 Architects and Marine Engineers will please come to order. As usual, we will begin our 

 proceedings by the presentation of the report of the Secretary-Treasurer, Daniel H. Cox. 



REPORT OF SECRETARY-TREASURER. 



November 7, 1919. 



To the Council of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers: — 



Gentlemen : — ^I have the honor to submit the following report showing the condition 



of the Society at the close of the fiscal year ended October 31, 1919. 



The membership of the Society as at October 31, 1919, was as follows : — 



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