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mathematical physics and magnetism. Author of 

 "Theory of the Newtonian Potential Function"; 

 " Experiments in Magnetism," and of numerous 

 scientific papers on physics and mathematics. 

 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences; Member of the National Academy of 

 Sciences; American Mathematical Society; Amer- 

 ican Physical Society; Astronomical, and Astro- 

 physical Societies of America, etc. 



Harry Fielding Reid, Ph.D., Baltimore. Pro- 

 fessor of Geological Physics in Johns Hopkins 

 University, Baltimore. Special agent in charge 

 of earthquake records in U. S. Geological Survey. 

 Professor of Mathematics (1886-89) and of 

 Physics (1889-94) in Case School of Applied 

 Science, Cleveland, Ohio. Author of " Reports 

 on the Highways of Maryland," and of article on 

 glaciers. 



James Ford Rhodes, LL.D., Boston, Mass. His- 

 torian. Author of " History of the United States 

 from the Compromise of 1850," in seven volumes 

 (1850-77). Recipient of the Loubet Prize of the 

 Berlin Academy of Sciences. 



Owen Willams Richardson, M.A. (Cantab.), 

 D.Sc. (Lond.), Princeton, N. J. Professor of 

 Physics in Princeton University. Has published 

 since 1901 important papers on the radioactive 

 discharges from hot bodies. These researches 

 have recently led to the experimental verification 

 of Maxwell's law of distribution, and are still in 

 active progress. His papers have appeared in the 

 Philosophical Transactions and in the London, 

 Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine. 



FOREIGN HESIDENTS 



Adolf von Baeyer, Ph.D., M.D., F.R.S., Munich. 

 Professor of Chemistry in University of Miinich 

 since 1875. Fellow of the Royal Society; Member 

 of the National Academy of Sciences, and of the 

 Academies of Berlin, St. Petersburg, Vienna and 

 Rome, and of the Institute of France. Distin- 

 guished for his investigations in the field of 

 organic chemistry. Recipient of the Nobel prize 

 in chemistry in 1905 and was awarded the Davy 

 Medal by the Royal Society in 1881 for his 

 researches on indigo. 



Madame S. Curie, Paris. Chemist; Discoverer 

 of Polonium, Radium, etc. 



Sir David Gill, K.C.B., Sc.D., LL.D., F.R.S., 

 London. H. M. Astronomer at Cape of Good 

 Hope, 1879-1907. President of the Royal Astro- 

 nomical Society; Past-president of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science; 

 Member of the Academies of St. Petersburg, Ber- 



lin, Rome, of the Institute of France and of the 

 National Academy of Sciences. In 1877 proposed 

 and carried out an expedition to Ascension Island 

 to determine the solar parallax by observations of 

 Mars. Author of report of this expedition; of 

 Heliometer Determinations of Stellar Parallax in 

 Southern Hemisphere; Determination of the Solar 

 Parallax and Mass of the Moon from Heliometer 

 Observations of Victoria and Sappho; Gold Medal- 

 list of the National Academy of Sciences; of the 

 Astronomical Society of the Pacific; and of the 

 Royal Society. 



Edward Meyer, Ph.D., LL.D., Berlin. Professor 

 of Ancient History in the University of Berlin. 

 Leading authority on ancient oriental history. 

 Author of " Geschichte des Altertums " ; " Forsch- 

 ungen zu Alter Geschichte " ; " Die Israeliten 

 und ihre Nachbarstamme " ; and of numerous 

 papers and monographs. German Exchange Pro- 

 fessor at Harvard University (1909-10). 



Charles Kmile Pieard, Paris. Vice-president of 

 Academy of Sciences of Paris; Professor of An- 

 alyse Sup^rieure in the University of Paris, and 

 of General Mechanics at I'Ecole Centrale des Arts 

 et Manufactures. Member of the Academies of 

 Berlin, St. Petersburg, Rome, Copenhagen, Turin, 

 Bologna, Boston and Washington; Member of the 

 Royal Societies of Gottingen, Upsala and Helsing- 

 fors. Author of Traite d'Analyse; Thfiorie des 

 functions AlgSbriques de deux Variables and of 

 numerous memoirs upon mathematics. 



THE GEORGE WASHINGTON MEMORIAL 



BUILDING 

 The council of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, at its meeting 

 in Boston in December, gave its approval to 

 the general plan of the George Washington 

 Memorial Association to erect in the city of 

 Washington a building to serve as a home and 

 gathering place for national, patriotic, scien- 

 tific, educational, literary and art organiza- 

 tions, including the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, and authorized 

 the appointment of a committee of five to as- 

 sist in the effort. 



President Michelson appointed as this com- 

 mittee Dr. C. D. Walcott, secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Ira Eemsen, 

 president of Johns Hopkins University, 

 Dr. William H. Welch, of the Eockefeller In- 

 stitute, Dr. George M. Kober, of the George- 



