INTRODUCTORY PROCEEDINGS 



Minutes of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society of Naval Archi- 

 tects AND Marine Engineers, Held at Witherspoon Hall, Philadelphia, Pa., 

 Thursday and Friday, November 14 and 15, 1918. 



FIRST SESSION. 

 Thursday Morning, November 14, 1918. 



The President, Mr. Stevenson Taylor, called the meeting to order at 9.55 a.m., and 

 said :— "Gentlemen, I now call to order the Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Society of 

 Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. The first business in order is the reading of the 

 annual report by the Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. Daniel H. Cox. I presume he will read that 

 in brief." 



Mr. Cox presented the following report : — 



REPORT OF SECRETARY-TREASURER. 



November 13, 1918. 

 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, 1918. 

 The membership of the Society November 1, 1918, was as' follows: — 



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