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For Members of Council, term expiring December 31, 1918: — H. A. Magoun, W. J. 

 Baxter, Andrew Fletcher, R. H. Robinson, W. D. Forbes and W. G. Coxe. 



For Associate Members of Council, term expiring December 31, 1918: — J. S. Hyde 

 and H. D. Goulder. 



For Executive Committee : — W. L. Capps, Lewis Nixon, W. I. Babcock, Andrew 

 Fletcher and W. M. McFarland. 



For Secretary-Treasurer: — D. H. Cox. 



For Committee on Papers: — W. M. McFarland, W. I. Babcock and F. L. DuBosque. 



The Committee on Nominations will now report their recommendations for President. 



Chief Constructor Washington L. Capps, Vice-President: — Gentlemen, the Com- 

 mittee on Nominations for the presidency of this Society felt that it had a special duty to per- 

 form this year, in view of the fact — of which many of you may be aware, but which I beg par- 

 ticularly to bring to your attention — that during our next three-year period of the presidency, 

 we hope to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the foundation of the Society. This 

 Society was organized, under a charter of the State of New York, on the 28th of April, 1893, 

 on petition of certain charter members. The petition was approved by Justice Patterson of the 

 Supreme Court of New York on the 10th day of May, 1893, and our first meeting was held 

 in November of that same year. So that those of us who are here in November, 1918, will 

 be privileged to participate in a notable anniversary. It therefore seemed to the Committee 

 on Nominations eminently proper that the one to be nominated for the presidency this year 

 should be one who had been identified with the Society from its inauguration, and, if prac- 

 ticable, one who had occupied high place in the Council during this whole period. In this 

 connection, it is regretfully noted that not a single one of our original vice-presidents is living, 

 and our dearly-beloved first president, as you know, passed to the great beyond several years 

 ago. 



Fortunately for us, however, we have in our Council today one who, from the very 

 beginning of this Society, has taken a most active interest in its work. He is known to all 

 of you ; he is loved by all of you. The committee, therefore, has not the slightest hesitation, 

 in spite of its knowledge that it would add to the work of this particular gentleman and 

 impose a further considerable burden upon him — your committee, I repeat, had not the 

 slightest hesitation in recommending by unanimous vote to the Council that their selection 

 for the presidency be submitted to the general meeting of the Society. The Council received 

 the committee's recommendation with acclaim and I now consider it a very great privilege to 

 present to you, as the nominee of the Council for the presidency, our honored and beloved col- 

 league, Mr. Stevenson Taylor. (Applause.) 



The President :— Gentlemen, you have heard the report of the Nominating Committee. 

 As no other nomination has been made, under the provisions of the by-laws, Mr. Taylor's 

 name is the only name before you. I shall, therefore, ask for a rising vote as to whether the 

 report of the committee shall be accepted and adopted and Mr. Stevenson Taylor elected pres- 

 ident. All in favor of that, make it manifest by rising. If there are any opposed, they will 

 please rise. I see no one rising. It is a unanimous vote, and Mr. Stevenson Taylor can be 

 congratulated upon the confidence, the love and respect his associates have shown toward 

 him in electing him the president of the Society for the ensuing term of three years. 



