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SCIENCE 



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



Beport of the Committee on Solar Eesearch 

 The committee begs to call the attention of the 

 academy to the publication of Vol. IV. of the 

 Transactions of the International Union for Co- 

 operation in Solar Eesearch, "which contains the 

 complete proceedings of the last meeting in Bonn, 

 reports of the various committees, resolutions 

 adopted by the Union, and several scientific papers 

 on solar and stellar phenomena. 



The four volumes of Transactions already pub- 

 lished by the Solar Union may be obtained from 

 Messrs. Longmans, Green & Company, Fourth 

 Avenue and 30th Street, New York, at $2.50 per 

 volume. 



Geoege B. Hale, 



Chairman 



Becommendations from the Council 



That the following bequest from Mrs. Mary 

 Anna Palmer Draper be accepted. 



Extract from the Will of Mrs. Mary Anna 

 Palmer Draper, Page 7, Section 9 (Second Para- 

 graph) : "I give and bequeath to the Nationsl 

 Academy of Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, 

 "Washington, D. C, the sum of twenty -five thousand 

 dollars ($25,000)." 



Seport of the Editorial Board of the Proceedings 

 The editorial board of the Proceedings reports 

 to the academy that four numbers of the Proceed- 

 ings have now been issued, containing sixty-seven 

 original papers in addition to the report of the 

 autumn meeting, notices of scientific memoirs, and 

 announcements. These numbers have consisted of 

 258 pages, an average of 64 pages per number 

 and of about four pages per article. The papers 

 are distributed among different sciences as fol- 

 lows: mathematics, 11; astronomy, 11; physics, 

 none; chemistry, 11; geology, 2; paleontology, 1 

 botany, 4; zoology (including genetics), 12 

 physiology, 8; pathology, none; anthropology, 5 

 psychology, 2. It will be noticed that the sub- 

 jects of physics, of geology and paleontology, and 

 of pathology, have been very inadequately repre- 

 sented; and the editorial board urges members of 

 the academy in these fields to endeavor to remedy 

 this situation. 



An edition of 3,000 copies of these four num- 

 bers has been printed. Of this edition about 900 

 are to be sent abroad to the libraries of universi- 

 ties and other active research institutions upon a 

 mailing list prepared with great care by the for- 

 eign secretary aided by members of the editorial 

 board. Of this edition 1,200 copies have also 



been distributed in this country by the home secre- 

 tary to important libraries and to the thousand 

 persons whose names are starred in Cattell's 

 American Men of Science. 



Arthur A. Notes, 



Chairman 



Beport of the Committee on the Collection of Sis- 

 torical Portraits, Manuscripts and Instru- 

 ments 

 To THE President and Members op the Na- 

 tional Academy of Sciences: 



Your committee on the collection of historical 

 portraits, manuscripts and instruments, including 

 instnmients purchased at the expense of the trust 

 funds which are no longer needed for the original 

 purpose, begs to report as follows: 



That the collection of portraits of the members 

 of the academy has been brought together and ar- 

 ranged alphabetically. 



That the foreign secretary has turned over the 

 medal from the Groningen Academy celebrating 

 its four hundredth anniversary. 



That the following apparatus was presented by 

 Mrs. Henry Draper and has been deposited in the 

 United States National Museum: 



1 slit. 



1 spectrum photograph (broken). 



1 liquid prism cell. 



1 prism with 2-ineh faces. 



1 iDundle — attempts of Henry Draper to rule 

 gratings. 



1 speculum metal ruled surface; 2-ineh, square. 



1 bunsen burner. 



2 boxes, 12 photographs each. 

 1 box, 50 photographs. 



1 box, 34 photographs. 

 1 box, 22 photographs. 

 1 box, 15 daguerreotypes. 

 1 box, 7 photographs. 

 13 Geisler tubes. 



Election of Memhers of the Council 

 Mr. W. H. Howell and Mr. J. M. Coulter were 

 chosen to succeed Mr. W. T. Councilman and Mr. 

 E. S. Woodward. 



Election of New Members 



Henry Seely White, mathematician, Vassar Col- 

 lege, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 



Charles Greeley Abbot, astrophysicist, Astro- 

 physical Observatory, Smithsonian Institution, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Robert Andrews Millikan, physicist, University 

 of Chicago, Chicago, HI. 



Alexander Smith, chemist, Columbia University, 

 New York City. 



Samuel Wendell Williston, paleontologist. Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, Chicago, 111. 



William Ernest Castle, zoologist. Harvard Uni- 

 versity, Cambridge, Mass. 



