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it has always numbered among its members 

 many of the most distinguished scholars 

 of this and foreign lands, no concerted at- 

 tempt had heretofore been made to bring 

 together the general membership of the 

 Society for the presentation and discussion 

 of scientific papers. The success of this 

 first general meeting has been so gratify- 

 ing that it is almost certain that it will not 

 be the last of its kind. About one hun- 

 dred and twenty members of the Society 

 were in attendance upon the meetings, of 

 whom upwards of fifty came from places 

 more or less distant from Philadelphia. 



At the annual election held on the second 

 day of the meeting the following persons 

 were elected to membership in the Society : 



RESIDENTS OP THE UNITED STATES. 



John A. Brashear, Sc.D., Allegheny, Pa. 



Acting Director of the Allegheny Obaervatory; 

 Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society of Great 

 Britain; Member of British Astronomical Asso- 

 ciation; of Soci^e Astronomique de Prance, etc.; 

 maker of astronomical and physical instruments 

 of world-wide repute. 



Andrew Carnegie, LL.D., New York. 



Lord Rector of the University of St. Andrew; 

 munificent contributor to the promotion of science, 

 learning and the useful arts; founder and en- 

 dower of the Carnegie Institution, at Washington, 

 for the promotion of original research. 



Professor William B. Clark, Baltimore. 



Professor of Geology, Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity; State Geologist of Maryland; Associate- 

 Editor of the Journal of Geology; author of 

 numerous papers in publications of United States 

 Geological Survey and Maryland Geological Sur- 

 vey and in scientific journals. 



Professor Hermann CoUitz, Ph.D., Bryn 

 Mawr. 



Professor of Comparative Philology and German 

 at Bryn Mawr College ; author of ' Sammlung der 

 Griechisehen Dialektinsehriften,' and of many 

 valuable philological contributions. 



Grove K. Gilbert, Washington. 



Past-President of the American Association for 

 Advancement of Science; Member of National 

 Academy of Sciences; Geologist in United States 

 Geological Survey since 1879; in Ohio Survey, 



1868-70; in Wheeler Survey, 1871-4; in Powell 

 Survey, 1875-9. Author of ' Geology of the Henry 

 Mountains ' and of numerous reports and articles 

 in publications of the United States Geological 

 Survey. 



President Arthur Twining Hadley, New 

 Haven. 



President of Yale University; of American 

 Economic Association ; Author of ' Railroad 

 Transportation, its History and Laws,' 1885; 

 ' Economies — An Account of the Relations between 

 Private Property and Public Welfare,' 1876, etc. 



Professor George E. Hale, Williams Bay, 

 Wis. 



Professor of Astrophysics and Director of the 

 Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago ; author 

 of many valuable papers on the sun, stellar spec- 

 troscopy, etc. 



Professor Paul Haupt, Baltimore. 



Professor of Semitic Languages in Johns Hop- 

 kins University; editor of the 'Polychrome 

 Bible ' ; author of ' Sumarisch-Akkadische Keil- 

 schrifttexte,' ' Sumarische Pamiliengesetze,' ' die 

 Akkadische Sprache,' etc., and of numerous papers 

 on Biblical and Assyrian philology, history and 



C. Hart Merriam, Washington. 



Chief of the United States Biological Survey, 

 Department of Agriculture; one of the most emi- 

 nent of America mammalogists ; author of several 

 works and numerous papers on zoological and 

 botanical subjects. 



Professor Albert Abraham Michelson, 

 Sc.D. (Cantab.), Chicago. 



Head Professor of Physics in University of Chi- 

 cago; Member of National Academy of Sciences; 

 Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society; author of 

 numerous valuable papers chiefly on researches in 

 light. 



Professor Theodore William Richards, 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



Professor of Chemistry in Harvard University; 

 Member of National Academy of Sciences. Author 

 of numerous papers concerning atomic weights and 

 physical chemistry. 



Professor Felix E. Sehelling, Ph.D., 

 Philadelphia. 



Professor of History and English Literature in 

 University of Pennsylvania ; author of ' English 

 Chronicle Plays ' ; editor of ' Book of Elizabethan 

 Lyrics ' ; 'A Book of Seventeenth Century Lyrics ' ; 

 etc. 



