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Wentworth W. Meek, 27 Groton Street, New London, Conn. 



Edmond R. Norton, c/o Lake Torpedo Boat Co., Bridgeport, Conn. 



Robert A. Sheerin, A. P. O. No. 760, American Expeditionary Force, France. 



S. Peirce Taylor, 123 West 85tli Street, New York, N. Y. 



John Winslow, 20 Cleveland Street, New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. 



Fro}n Juniors to Members (3). 



George A. Andrews, Lieutenant, C. C, U. S. N., Navy Yard, Boston, Mass. 

 Louis A. Baier, 2601 Allendale Road, Baltimore, Md. 

 Caryl H. Roundy, 36 Summer Street, Port Chester, N. Y. 



From Juniors to Associates (5). 



Charles F. Gross, 916 East North Avenue, Baltimore, Md. 

 Richard D. Karr, 81 Van Houten Avenue, Passaic, N. J. 

 Carl J. Nordstrom, Hotel Mallory, Portland, Ore. 

 Henry J. Roundy, 36 Summer Street, Port Chester, N. Y. 

 Ralph M. Smith, Multnomah Hotel, Portland, Ore. 



The President : — The next order of business calls for the reading of the president's 

 annual address. 



President Taylor then read his annual address, which was followed with much interest 

 and greeted with applause. 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



On July 26, 1892, after the launching of the U. S. S. Columbia at the Cramp Shipyard, 

 Naval Constructor David W. Taylor entertained his colleagues at the University Club in 

 Philadelphia. There were present Naval Constructor Francis T. Bowles, Naval Constructor 

 Washington L. Capps, Naval Constructor Ruhm (now deceased), and Naval Constructor 

 Lewis Nixon, who had recently resigned from the service and at this time occupied a very re- 

 sponsible position with the William Cramp & Sons Company. The founding of a society on the 

 lines of the British Institution of Naval Architects was brought up by Naval Constructor 

 (now Admiral) Bowles, and heartily approved by all. 



Naval Constructor (nov^r Admiral) Capps was requested to act as provisional secretary 

 and to prepare letters to be sent to shipbuilders, marine engineers, naval officers and others 

 professionally interested. 



This in due course was done and on the 28th day of April, 1893, there were duly signed 

 and acknowledged the Articles of Incorporation of The Society of Naval Architects and 

 Marine Engineers under the laws of the State of New York; and on November 16 of the 

 same year the first general meeting of the Society was held in the Auditorium of the Amer- 

 ican Society of Mechanical Engineers, then situated at 12 West 31st Street, New York City. 



This Society therefore now at its twenty-sixth meeting celebrates the twenty-fifth anni- 

 versary of its incorporation and its first meeting. 



It is particularly interesting to note who were the incorporators, what was done at the 

 first meeting, and the general conditions then existing. 



The first president was Clement A. Griscom, and to Lewis Nixon we owe his nomina- 

 tion. In memory of Mr. Griscom be it said that for ten successive years he was elected 



