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member societies, when officially requested by the 

 member societies to do so. 



Article VII. Finances 



The financial affairs of the Federation shall be 

 controlled by the Council, which may receive and 

 administer funds for the promotion of the pur- 

 poses of the Federation. The current expenses 

 of the Council shall be met by contributions, and 

 by assessments on member societies. The Council 

 may recommend but not impose such assessments. 

 Article VIII. Eeporta 



The Council may make an annual report to 

 each of the member societies, setting forth the 

 nature and extent of what has been accomplished 

 by the Federation during the past year, and also 

 pointing out, as far as possible, the general lines 

 along which the activities of the Federation are' 

 to be directed during the coming year. The an- 

 nual report of the Council shall include a financial 

 statement. 



Article IX. Amendments 



Section 1. Amendments to the Constitution 

 shall require the approval of a majority of the 

 Council and of two-thirds of the member societies. 



Section 2. Amendments may originate in mem- 

 ber societies or in the Council. 



Section 3. Notice of proposed amendments 

 must be presented to the Secretary of the Council 

 and mailed to all members at least one month be- 

 fore the meeting at which they are to be con- 

 sidered by the Council. Notice of approval of 

 any amendment by the Council shall be submitted 

 to the Secretaries of the Societies for action. On 

 receipt of notice of the approval of any amend- 

 ment by two-thirds of the member societies, the 

 Secretary of the Council shall give notice of its 

 adoption in writing to all member societies. 

 A. Franklin Shull, 

 Secretary of the Executive 

 Committee pro. tern. 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



BUST OF CHESTER S. LYMANi 

 Mr. Chester W. Ltman, of the class of 

 1882, Yale College, has presented to the trus- 

 tees of the Scientific School a portrait bust in 

 marble of his father, the late Professor Chester 

 S. Lyman. This piece of sculpture, made by 

 Mr. James T. Porter, of New York, is a beau- 

 tiful work of art and the artist has not only 

 succeeded in depicting in the marble a likeness 

 1 From the Yale Alumni Weekly. 



which is striking but has caught the essence of 

 the subject's personality. The bust will stand 

 in the faculty room, where it will perpetuate 

 within the walls of the school not only the 

 features but the spirit as well of one whose 

 life was largely devoted to its welfare during 

 the early years of its struggle for existence. 



Chester S. Lyman was one of the early pro- 

 fessors in the Sheffield Scientific School, having 

 been appointed as professor of industrial me- 

 chanics and physics in 1859. In 1884 his chair 

 was limited to astronomy, physics being made 

 a distinct chair, and Dr. Charles S. Hastings 

 was appointed at that date to fill this position. 

 Professor Lyman was retired as professor 

 emeritus in 1889 and died in 1890. 



Dr. Hastings, now professor of physics 

 emeritus, has kindly written the following ap- 

 preciation of the late Professor Lyman's work : 



The admirable portrait bust of the late Pro- 

 fessor Chester S. Lyman, presented to the Shef- 

 field Scientific School, gives the welcome oppor- 

 tunity to an old and grateful pupil to record some 

 memories of his enviable place as a teacher. 



A most interesting sketch of his remarkably 

 intellectual, and even adventurous, life was print- 

 ed in The Popular Science Monthly of September, 

 1887, by his son, Chester W. Lyman. The present 

 note may, therefore, best confine itself to some- 

 what personal reminiscences. 



In 1867 an acquaintance began which was of 

 inestimable value to the present writer and which 

 continued until the end of Professor Lyman's life. 

 The kindness with which the freshman was re- 

 ceived, the generous manner in which his letters 

 of introduction were accepted, served to establish 

 a friendship which is rarely equaled between 

 teacher and scholar. The teaching was by no 

 means confined to the classroom, but extended 

 even to an unrestricted use of his private observa- 

 tory and convenient little machine shop. 



At that time the equipment of the department 

 of physios was very meager. Notwithstanding 

 this fact, such was the ingenuity of Professor 

 Lyman in making necessary apparatus, his clear- 

 ness of exposition, his profoundly philosophical 

 feeling for the essentials of science, that there was 

 certainly no better school for tlie earnest student 

 of physics in the country. It was during this 

 period, or a little earlier, that he invented and 

 constructed his water-wave apparatus, which still 

 seems to me the most perfect and remarkable 



