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REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
BUSINESS SESSIONS 
The Annual Report of the President, containing that of the Treasurer for 
1918 in printed form was presented, accepted and distributed to the members. 
The following assignments of Biographical Memoirs were announced: Mem- 
oirs of Geo. Francis Atkinson to N. L. Britton, of George F. Becker, to A. G. 
Webster, of Maxime Bocher to Wm. E. Story, of Edward C. Pickering to 
H. N. Russell, of Wallace C. Sabine to Edwin H. Hall, and of Charles R. Van 
Hise to T. C. Chamberlin. 
Changes in personnel of sections and committees were announced as follows: 
Local Committee: F, L. Ransome, chairman; M. T. Bogert, A. O. Leusch- 
NER, C. H. Merriam, E. F. Nichols, E. B. Rosa. 
Henry Draper Fund: W. W. Campbell to succeed himself, term expiring in 
1924. 
J. Lawrence Smith Fund: E. W. Morley, to succeed himself, term expir- 
ing in 1924. A. O. Leuschner to fill the unexpired term of E. C. Pickering, 
expiring in 1920. 
Comstock Fund: W. R. Whitney to succeed A. A. Noyes, term expiring in 
1924. 
Marsh Fund: J. C. Merriam to succeed E. H. Moore as chairman and mem- 
ber, term expiring in 1922. 
Murray Fund: W. M. Davis, to succeed himself, term expiring in 1922. 
Marcellus Hartley Fund: A. A. Noyes, chairman and member, to succeed 
G. F. Becker, term expiring in 1922. S. W. Stratton to succeed W. F. Hil- 
lebrand, term expiring in 1922. 
REPORTS from OFFICERS OF THE ACADEMY 
The Home Secretary presented the following report, which was accepted. 
April 28, 1919.^ 
The President of the National Academy of Sciences, 
Washington, D. C. 
Sir: I have the honor to present the following report of the Acting Home Secretary on 
the publications and membership of the National Academy of Sciences for the year ending 
April 30, 1919. 
The exigencies of war have retarded printing in Washington and for that reason no scien- 
tific memoirs have been published during the year. Publication has been taken up again, 
however, and four memoirs are now in preparation : 
"The Complete Classification of the Triad Systems in Fifteen Elements," by H. S. White, 
F. N. Cole, and Miss L. D. Cummings, received in manuscript on June 20, 1917 and sent to 
the Public Printer to be published as Volume XIV, Second Memoir. 
"Tables of the Minor Planets — Discoveries by James C. Watson, Part 2: On Von Zeipel's 
Theory of the Perturbations of the Minor Planets of the Hecuba Group," by A. O. Leusch- 
ner, A. E. Clancy, and S. H. Levy, received in manuscript on January 7, 1919, and sent to 
the Public Printer to be published as Volume XIV, Third Memoir. 
"Minor Constituents of Meteorites," by George P. Merrill, received in manuscript on 
May 11, 1918 and sent to the Public Printer to be published as Volume XIV, Fourth Memoir. 
