REPORT OF THE AUTUMN MEETING 
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REPORT OF THE AUTUMN MEETING 
Prepared by the Acting Home Secretary 
The Autumn Meeting of the Academy was held at the Johns Hopkins 
University in Baltimore, November 18 and 19, 1918. 
Forty-one members were present as follows: C. G. Abbot, Abel, Ames, 
Bliss, D. H. Campbell, Castle, F. W. Clarke, J. M. Clarke, Conklin, Cross, 
Davenport, Davis, Franklin, Freeman, Gomberg, Halsted, Holmes, Howard, 
Howe, Howell, Iddings, Jennings, Jones, Leuschner, Lewis, Lindgren, C. E. 
Mendenhall, J. C. Merriam, Michelson, Moulton, E. F. Nichols, Pupin, Ran- 
some, Russell, Erwin F. Smith, Thorndyke, Vaughan, Walcott, Webster, 
Welch, R. W. Wood. 
BUSINESS SESSIONS 
The President announced the death of S. W. Willis ton and of G. K. 
Gilbert. 
The following assignments of Biographical Memoirs was announced: 
Memoirs of G. K. Gilbert to William M. Davis, of Richmond Mayo Smith to 
Edwin R. A. Sigman, and of Samuel W. Wilhston to Richard S. Lull. 
Announcement was made of the following funds available for the National 
Research Council: 
Carnegie Institution $100,000.00 
W. W. Keen 483.57 
Rockefeller Foundation 50,000.00 
President's Fund 120,000.00 
Total available for the fiscal year 1919 $270,483.57 
The President announced the following appointments to the Board of 
Editors of the Proceedings with terms expiring December, 1921: J. M. 
Clarke, Ludvig Hektoen, H. S. Jennings, R. A. Millikan, W. A. Noyes. 
The Managing Editor of the Proceedings, Mr. E. B. Wilson, was re- 
elected for the year ending November 30, 1919. 
The following communication from the Home Secretary, Mr. Arthur L. 
Day, was read and acted upon: 
Dr. Charles D. Walcott 
President, National Academy of Sciences, 
Washington, D. C. 
9 Sept. 1918 
Dear Dr. Walcott: 
Twice within the year, under the pressure of war activities which have kept me away 
from Washington considerably more than half the time, I have asked to be relieved of the 
duties of Home Secretary of the Academy. Both times the Council has done me the honor 
to request that the resignation be withdrawn, even though the duties which I have hitherto 
performed are required to be otherwise provided for. I have appreciated this very unusual 
