INTRODUCTORY PROCEEDINGS 



Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine 



Engineers. 



Thursday Morning, December 10, 1914. 



The Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine 

 Engineers was held in the Engineering Societies Building, New York City, on Thursday 

 and Friday, December 10 and 11, 1914. 



In the absence of the President, Col. Robert M. Thompson, the meeting was called to 

 order at 10.25 o'clock by the Secretary, Mr. Daniel H. Cox. 



The Secretary: — The meeting will please come to order. I have to announce that, 

 owing to the illness of our President, Col. Robert M. Thompson, whose doctors have for- 

 bidden him to leave his home, he will be unable to be present at this meeting or at the ban- 

 quet. This fact was reported to the Council previous to this meeting, and at a special meet- 

 ing of the Council held for the purpose, our past-president, Mr. Stevenson Taylor, was chosen 

 presiding officer of the meeting and of the banquet. 



Past-President Stevenson Taylor took the chair amid applause. 



The Chairman : — I thank you, gentlemen. Will you kindly give your attention to the 

 Secretary-Treasurer, who will read his report, which has been adopted as the Report of the 

 Council. 



