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Two hundred and fifty-five members were 

 elected fellows. 



A report from the committee on policy 

 was adopted, providing for the appoint- 

 ment of a committee of five to consider the 

 future of Section C. 



The amendment to the constitution, pro- 

 posed last year, and providing for the 

 establishment of "Section M. Agricul- 

 ture," was adopted. 



Amendments to the constitution -were 

 also proposed as follows, in order that they 

 may be acted upon next year under the 

 provisions of the constitution. 



Article 22 — Amend by omitting "Me- 

 chanical and" after the title "D," so as to 

 read ; "D — Engineering." 



Article 22— After "Section M. Agri- 

 culture" add "The council shall have 

 power to create additional sections from 

 time to time, and to discontinue, cornbine, 

 or rearrange existing sections." 



The financial report of the permanent 

 secretary was read, accepted and ordered 

 printed. 



The council adopted the following reso- 

 lutions, relating to the proposed meeting 

 at San Francisco in 1915. 



Besolved: that a committee be appointed for tie 

 proposed San Francisco meeting of the association 

 in 1915, this committee to be known as "The 

 Committee on the Pacific Coast Meeting. ' ' 



The president later appointed on this 

 committee the following: 



Wm. Wallace Campbell, Sc.D., LL.D., director 

 of the Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, Cal., 

 chairman; John Casper Branner, Ph.D., LL.D., 

 professor of geology, Leland Stanford University; 

 Wm. Alanson Bryan, president Pacific Scientific 

 Institution, Honolulu ; Henry Smith Carhart, Sc.D., 

 LL.D., Pasadena, Cal.; Charles Lincoln Edwards, 

 Ph.D., University of Southern California, Los 

 Angeles, Cal. ; Professor Wm. Trufont Foster, 

 president of Keed College, Portland, Ore.; Geo. 

 Ellery Hale, Sc.D., LL.D., director of the Mt. 

 Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, Cal.; Mellen 

 Woodman Haskell, Ph.D., professor of mathe- 



matics. University of California; Eugene Walde- 

 mar Hilgard, Ph.D., emeritus director of the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, University of California; 

 Geo. Holmes Howison, LL.D., professor of philos- 

 ophy. University of California; Oliver Peebles 

 Jenkins, professor of physiology, Stanford Uni- 

 versity; David Starr Jordan, M.D., Ph.D., LL.D., 

 president of Stanford University; Thos. Franklin 

 Kane, Ph.D., president of the University of Wash- 

 ington; Lyman Vernon Kellogg, professor of ento- 

 mology, Stanford University; Chas. Atwood Ko- 

 foid, Ph.D., professor of zoology. University of 

 California ; Alfred L. Kroeber, Ph.D., Afiiliated 

 Colleges, San Francisco, Cal.; Andrew Cowper 

 Lawson, professor of geology and mineralogy. 

 University of California; E. Percival Lewis, Ph.D., 

 professor of physics. University of California; 

 Jas. Harvey McBride, M.D., Pasadena, Cal.; 

 Daniel Trembly McDougal, Ph.D., LL.D., Desert 

 Botanical Laboratory, Tucson, Ariz.; Lillien J. 

 Martin, professor of psychology, Stanford Uni- 

 versity; John Campbell Merriam, Ph.D., professor 

 of paleontology. University of California; Agnes 

 Claypool Moody, Ph.D., Berkeley, Cal.; John Muir, 

 LL.D., Martinez, Cal. ; Wm. Emerson Eitter, Ph.D., 

 director of the Marine Biological Station, San 

 Diego, Cal. ; Harris Joseph Ryan, professor of 

 electrical engineering, Stanford University; Fer- 

 nando Sanford, professor of physics, Stanford 

 University; William Albert Setchell, Ph.D., pro- 

 fessor of botany. University of California; John 

 M. Stillman, Ph.D., professor of chemistry, Stan- 

 ford University; Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president 

 of the University of California. 



The committee on policy presented the 

 following, which was adopted : 



Eesolved: that it be recommended that the 

 council authorizes the committee on the Pacific 

 Coast meeting proposed for 1915, to hold in the 

 name of the association meetings of its members 

 resident in that region, for the purpose of consid- 

 ering the relations of the association to the exposi- 

 tion in question, and if desirable, for the presenta- 

 tion of scientific programs. The expenses incurred 

 shall be met from funds in the hands of the per- 

 manent secretary to such extent as may be ap- 

 proved by the committee on policy. 



The following grant was allowed : 



To the Concilium Bibliographicum . $200 

 A report of progress in the study of fish 

 scales was received from Prof. Theo. D. A. 



