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absolute necessity of considering the dispo- 
sition of the library in the immediate future. 
We have practically reached the limit of ac- 
commodationsin the library room, and the 
department of exchanges is housed in the 
Gallery of the Museum of Fossil Plants and 
Vertebrates, in Schermerhorn Hall of Co- 
lumbia University, solely by courtesy of the 
Department of Geology, and it has already 
exceeded the space which that department 
can conveniently spare. Radical measures 
must be adopted in the near future or the 
library must close its doors. 
Following the reports of officers was the 
election of the honorary members listed 
below : 
Charles Vernon Boys, 66 Victoria St., S. W., Lon- 
don, England. 
Emil Fischer, Professor of Chemistry, University of 
Berlin, Germany. 
William Ramsay, Professor of Chemistry, Univer- 
sity College, London, England. 
James Geikie, Professor of Geology, University of 
Edinburgh, Scotland. 
The Academy also voted to elect the fol- 
lowing resident members to be fellows: 
Dr. Henry E. Crampton, Dr. J. G. Curtis, 
Dr. C. A. Herter, Professor Graham Lusk, 
Professor Charles Lane Poor, Mr. C. A. 
Post, Dr. E. L. Thorndike, Dr. R. 8. Wood- 
worth. ‘‘ Fellows are limited to one hun- 
dred in number, and are chosen from among 
the resident members in virtue of scientific 
attainments or services.” 
Tellers were then appointed, and the offi- 
cers for the ensuing year were elected by 
ballot as follows : 
President, Robert S. Woodward. 
Ist Vice-President, Nathaniel L.* Britton. 
2d Vice-President, J. McKeen Cattell. 
Corresponding Secrvtary, Harold Jacoby. 
Recording Secretary, Richard E. Dodge. 
Treasurer, Charles F. Cox. 
Librarian, Livingston Farrand. 
Councilors, Franz Boas, Charles H. Judd, Charles 
A. Doremus, M.I. Pupin, Frederic 8. Lee, L. M. Un- 
derwood. : 
Curators, Harrison G. Dyar, George F. Kunz, Alexis 
A. Julien, Louis H. Laudy, E. G. Love. 
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Finance Committee, John H. Hinton, C. A. Post, 
Cornelius Van Brunt. 
Following this routine business President 
Woodward delivered his annual address, 
entitled ‘Observation and Experiment,’ ~ 
which will shortly be printed in this Jour- 
nau. After a vote of thanks to the Presi- 
dent for his address, proposed by ex-Presi- 
dent Henry F. Osborn, the meeting ad- 
journed. 
Ricuarp EH. Dones, 
Recording Secretary. 
RECENT PROGRESS IN GEODESY.* 
So much has been published during the 
past year in regard to recent events in the 
world of geodesy that there is apparently 
little to be said upon this occasion. Buta 
bird’s-eye or general view of a subject has 
its own special interest and value even to 
those who are familiar with the details. 
It is not necessary to review the recent 
progress in geodesy in foreign countries, 
since such a review was presented in Jan- 
uary before the Society in the form of a re- 
port upon the International Geodetic Asso- 
ciation Conference of 1900, by Mr. Isaac 
Winston, the delegate on the part of the 
United States to that conference, and this 
report is in print.f 
The principal geodetic enterprise now on 
foot in the United States is the measure- 
ment of a great arc along the 98th meridian 
from the Rio Grande to the Canadian border. 
Work upon this arc was commenced in 
1896. The present state of the undertak- 
ing is that the reconnaissance is complete 
from northern Nebraska to the Rio Grande ; 
that the triangulation, that is, the measure- 
ment of the horizontal and vertical angles, 
is complete from latitude 424° in northern 
* Read before the Philosophical Society of Wash- 
ington, February 16, 1901. 
{See SCIENCE, January 25, 1901, pp. 129-133. A 
more complete report upon the conference is pub- 
lished in Revue générale des sciences, Nov. 15, 1900, 
pp. 1175-1183 ; Noy. 30, 1900, pp. 1224-1233. 
