328 RECORDS. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



April 4, 1904. 



The Academy met at 8:20 P. M., Vice-President Poor 

 presiding. 



The minutes of the preceding business meeting were read and 

 approved. 



The following candidates for election as Active Members, 

 approved by the Council, were duly elected : 



Thomas Hunt Morgan. 



Charles B, Davenport. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



Henry E. Crampton, 

 Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF ASTRONOMY, PHYSICS AND 

 CHEMISTRY. 



April 4, 1904. 



Section met at 8:20 P. M., Vice-President Poor presiding. 

 The minutes of the last meeting of the Section were read and 

 approved. 



The following program was then offered : 



J. K. Rees, Harold Jacoby and Herman S. Davis, The 

 Variation of Latitude at New York City ; Part 2, Vari- 

 ation OF Latitude and Constant of Aberration. 



George B. Pegram and Harold Webb, Energy Liberated 

 BY Thorium. 



Wallace Goold Levison, Note on a Tribophosphoroscope, 

 AND THE Duration Spectrum of Tribophosphorescent Light. 



Summary of Papers. 



In the first paper Professor Jacoby presented the results of 

 seven years' continuous observations for a study of latitude 

 variation and the aberration of light, which results will be pub- 

 lished as the second and last part of Vol. I, in the Academy's 



