I9I5.] MINUTES. 



XI 



" Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas of the North CoaHnga Region of 

 Cahfornia," by John C. Merriam, Ph.D., Professor of 

 Paleontology and Historical Geology, University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



" The Role of the Glacial Anticyclone in the Air Circulation of 

 the Globe," by WilHam H. Hobbs, Ph.D., Professor of 

 Geology, University of Michigan. 



" Note on the Sun's Temperature," by Henry Norris Russell, 

 Ph.D., Professor of Astronomy, Princeton University. 



"Radial Velocities in the Orion Nebula," by Edwin B. Frost, 

 D.Sc, Director of Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, Wis. 

 Discussed by Prof. Russell. 



" Some Results from the Observation of Eclipsing Variables," 

 by Raymond S. Dugan, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, 

 Princeton University. (Introduced by Prof. H. N. Russell.) 



" The Variable Stars TV, TW, and TX Cassiopeia," by R. J. 

 McDiarmid, Fellow, Princeton University. (Introduced by 

 Prof. H. N. Russell.) 



" The Euler-Laplace Theorem on the Rounding Up of the Or- 

 bits of the Heavenly Bodies under the Secular Action of a 

 Resisting Medium," by T. J. J. See, Ph.D., U. S. Naval 

 Observatory, Mare Island, Cal. 



" The Work in Atmospheric Electricity aboard the ' Carnegie,' " 

 by L. A. Bauer, Ph.D., D.Sc, Director of the Department 

 of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington, and W. F. G. Swann, D.Sc. 



" Tamniuz and Osiris," by George A. Barton, Ph.D., Prof, of 

 Biblical Literature and Semitic Languages, Bryn Mawr Col- 

 lege, which was discussed by Dr. Jastrow. 



Afternoon Session — 2 o'clock. 

 William W. Keen, M.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



Dr. John Fillmore Hayford, a newly elected member, subscribed 

 the Laws and was admitted into the Society. 



A portrait of Dr. Edgar F. Smith, of Philadelphia, was pre- 

 sented to the Society by Dr. J. H. Penniman on behalf of the donor. 



