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particularly of the melon bug and the Dura 

 aphis. 



Nathan Banks. 



INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN SOLAR 

 RESEARCH.'' 



As chairman of the committee on solar re- 

 search of the National Academy of Sciences, 

 "which had issued the call for the conference, 

 Professor George E. Hale called the meeting 

 to order and explained the purpose of the con- 

 ference. After referring to previous move- 

 ments to secure cooperation in solar research, 

 he emphasized the importance of encouraging 

 individual initiative, and urged that no less 

 attention be paid to such encouragement than 

 to the accomplishment of large pieces of 

 routine work through cooperative effort.f 



The following officers were then elected to 

 serve for this meeting: 



President — Professor George E. Hale. 



Vice-president — Professor Henri Poincare. 



Recording secretary — Professor C. D. Perrine. 



A motion that for this meeting the voting 

 be by societies and that each society be al- 

 lowed one vote, was adopted. 



A motion was made and carried that the 

 chairman of each society's committee should 

 cast the vote for that society. 



After some remarks by Professor Hale on 

 cooperation the following motion was made 

 by Professor Turner: 



That this meeting is in favor of the organ- 

 ization of a scheme of international coopera- 

 tion in solar research which shall encourage 

 individual initiative, provide suggestions for 

 definite lines of work, and facilitate the col- 

 lection of results for publication. 



This expression, after remarks by Professors 

 Poincare, Boltzmann and Hale, was made the 

 sense of the meeting. 



Professor Hale stated that in appointing its 

 committee on Solar Research, the National 

 Academy of Sciences had given the committee 

 authority to join the president and foreign 

 secretary of the academy in presenting its 



* Minutes of the meeting of delegates to the 

 Conference on Solar Research, held in the Hall of 

 Congresses, St. Louis, September 23, 1904. 



t See Astrophysical Journal, December, 1904. 



plans for cooperation to the International As- 

 sociation of Academies. The opportunity now 

 existed of securing the views of the conference 

 on this subject. 



After remarks by various delegates upon the 

 relations of scientific societies among them- 

 selves and to the International Association of 

 Academies, the following motion was made by 

 Professor Poincare : 



That a committee to be appointed at this 

 meeting negotiate with the Academy of Sci- 

 ences of Vienna with the view of obtaining 

 the approval and the patronage of the Inter- 

 national Association of Academies. 



This motion was seconded by Professor 

 Boltzmann and adopted. 



A short discussion then ensued upon the 

 fullness of the representation of interested in- 

 dividuals and societies in the preparation of 

 plans for cooperation in solar research. 



Dr. Bauer moved: That the sub-committee 

 on terrestrial magnetism and atmospheric elec- 

 tricity of the international meteorological com- 

 mittee be invited to appoint a committee to 

 cooperate with the solar research committee. 

 This motion was seconded by Mr. Eotch 

 and adopted. 



Professor Turner moved : That the Hun- 

 garian Academy of Sciences of Budapest also 

 be invited to appoint a committee to cooperate 

 with the solar research committee. 



This motion was seconded by Professor 

 Frost and adopted. 



The following general motion was then 

 made by Professor Poincare and adopted : 



That the international committee on solar 

 research, to be appointed, be authorized to 

 invite, at its discretion, societies and individ- 

 uals which have been omitted, to cooperate. 

 The subject of the formation of an interna- 

 tional committee was then discussed. 



Professor Turner moved: That each com- 

 mittee participating be invited to appoint a 

 member to serve on the international com- 

 mittee. 



This motion was seconded by Professor 

 Campbell and adopted. 



Mr. Eotch, delegate of the sub-committee 

 of the international meteorological committee 

 on the relationship between meteorological 



