EXECUTIVE PROCEEDINGS. 



Quotations from the minutes. 



Preliminary conference. 



Residence of Pro} 'ess or Graham Lusk. January ig, ipoj. 



On January 17, 1903, copies of the following letter were sent 

 to a number of New York investigators in biology and medicine : 



" You are requested to attend a meeting to be held at the re- 

 sidence of Graham Lusk, 1 1 East 74th St., on Monday evening, 

 January 19, at half-past eight o'clock, for the purpose of estab- 

 lishing a Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, to be 

 composed of active workers in those branches." 



(Signed) Graham Lusk, 

 S. J. Meltzer. 



The following gentlemen were present at the meeting re- 

 ferred to : James Ewing, Holmes C. Jackson, Frederic S. Lee, 

 Graham Lusk, S. J. Meltzer, George B. Wallace and William J. 

 Gies. F. S. Lee was elected chairman ; W. J. Gies, recording 

 secretary. 



S. J. Meltzer stated the object of the meeting to be the organ- 

 ization of active workers in experimental biology and medicine. 

 Dr. Meltzer's views were unanimously endorsed and the following 

 committee on permanent organization was appointed : S. J. 

 Meltzer, Graham Lusk and W. J. Gies. 



The Secretary was instructed to invite the following gentlemen 

 to participate in the organization of the Society : Russell Burton- 

 Opitz, Gary N. Calkins, Henry E. Crampton, Richard H. Cunning- 

 ham, Christian A. Herter, Philip H. Hiss, Phcebus A. Levene, 

 Charles Norris, William H. Park, Alfred N. Richards, Percy G. 

 Stiles, Edmund B. Wilson. 



All of these gentlemen became charter members. 



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