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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLI. No. 1062 



by Edward L. NieholSj has been printed and 

 awaits the portrait. 



Three members have died since the last annual 

 meeting: Theodore Nicholas Gill, on September 



25, 1914, elected in 1873; Charles Sedgwick Miuot, 

 on November 19, 1914, elected in 1897, and Henry 

 Lord Wheeler, on October 30, 1914, elected in 

 1909. 



Of our foreign associates, Eduard Suess died on 

 April 26, 1914, elected in 1898; August Weismann, 

 on November 5, 1914, elected in 1913; Hugo 

 Kroneeker, on June 6, 1914, elected in 1901; G. 

 F. J. Arthur Auwers, on January 24, 1915, elected 

 in 1883. 



There are 134 active members on the member- 

 ship list, 1 honorary member, and' 43 foreign as- 

 sociates. 



Abthue Ii. Day, 

 Home Secretary 



Beport of the Directors of the Bache Fund 



To THE PEESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OP 



Sciences : 



Sir: The serious illness of Dr. Charles S. Minot, 

 the chairman of the board of directors of the 

 Bache Eund, made it difficult to carry on the 

 work of the board for several months. His death 

 in November last left a vacanc hard to fill, as he 

 was most conscientious in the performance of his 

 duties. After careful consideration the two re- 

 maining members of the board elected Professor 

 Eoss G. Harrison the third member and he ac- 

 cepted. In turn the board elected the undersigned 

 chairman. 



Since the last annual meeting of the academy 

 the following appropriations have been made: 



No. 182, W. C. Kendall, $600. April 30, 1911. 

 Toward the expenses of illustrations in color and 

 incidental expenses in connection with part II. 

 (Salmonidae), fishes of New England, to be pub- 

 lished by the Boston Society of Natural History. 



No. 183. C. G. Abbot, $250. June 29, 1914. 

 To complete and test on Mt. Wilson in California 

 an apparatus consisting of a concave oylindric 

 mirror of about 100 sq. ft. surface adapted to heat 

 oU to circulate through a reservoir containing 

 ovens and water pipes, and thereby to utilize solar 

 radiation for cooking and for heating water for 

 domestic purposes. 



No. 184. P. W. Bridgman, $500. Septembsr 

 14, 1914. To continue the work on high pressures, 

 especially to investigate the phase changes brought 

 about in various substances by very high pressure. 



No. 185. Eobert W. Hegner, $160. December 



26, 1914. To determine the visible changes that 

 take place during the differentiation of the 

 germ cells in the embryos of hermaphroditic ani- 

 mals, and to discover, if possible, the cause af 



No. 186. J. VoUte. $800. February 9, 1915. 

 For the determination of parallaxes of southern 

 stars by transits. The Bache Fund has heretofore 

 granted $1,000 for this research. It is conducted 

 at the Eoyal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, 

 wholly at the expense of Mr. Vollte, except for 

 these grants. 



No. 187. H. H. Lane, $500. April 14, 1915. 

 To make a comparative study of the embryos and 

 young of various mammals in order to determine, 

 by physiological experimentation and morpholog- 

 ical observations, the correlation between struc- 

 ture and function in the development of the spe- 

 cial senses. 



Iea Ebmsen, 

 Chairman 



April, 1915 



Beport of the Trustees of the Watson Fund 

 The will of the late James Craig Watson pro- 

 vided "for the promotion of astronomical sci- 

 ence," but he expressed the wish that a medal 

 should be given and that tables should be prepared 

 of the motions of all the planets discovered by 

 him. This last wish has now been carried out in 

 a most satisfactory manner by Professor A. O. 

 Leuschner, so that the income which has been 

 used for this purpose during the last fourteen 

 years is now available for the promotion of astro- 

 nomical science in other directions. 



The undersigned accordingly recommend the 

 following votes: 



Besolved, That the sum of five hundred dollars 

 from the income of the Watson Fund be appropri- 

 ated to Professor John A. Miller, director of the 

 Sproul Observatory, for measuring plates already 

 taken for the determination of stellar parallaxes. 

 Besolved, That the sum of three hundred dollars 

 be appropriated from the income of the Watson 

 Fund to Mr. John E. Mellish, to enable him to 

 undertake observations at the Terkes Observatory. 

 E. C« Pickering, Chairman, 

 W. L. Elkin, 

 Edwin B. Frost 

 April 2, 1915 



Beport of the Committee on the Henry Draper 

 Fund 

 The committee unanimously recommends to the 

 academy that the following grants for research 



Five hundred dollars to Dr. W. W. Campbell, 

 director of the Lick Observatory, for the purchase 

 and construction of spectrographic and other appa- 

 ratus for use with the Crossley Eeflector. 



Two hundred and fifty dollars to Dr. S. A. 

 Mitchell, director of the Leander McCormick Ob- 

 servatory, for the purchase of a machine for meas- 

 uring astronomical photographs. 



George E. Hale, 



Chairman 



