REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
481 
"Tables of the Exponential Function and of the Circular Sine and Cosine to Radian Argu- 
ment," by C. E. Van Orstrand, received in manuscript May 24, 1918 and sent to the Public 
Printer to be published as Volume XIV, Fifth Memoir. 
No Biographical Memoirs have been published, owing to pressure of war work, but the 
following biographies have been sent to the printer and are near completion: 
Cleveland Abbe, by W. J. Humphreys, received in manuscript November 7, 1917. 
Lewis Boss, by Benjamin Boss, received in manuscript March 20, 1917. 
William Bullock Clark, by John M. Clarke, received in manuscript January 2, 1918. 
James Mason Craft, by Charles R. Cross, manuscript received November 10, 1918. 
James Dwight Dana, by L. V. Pirsson, received in manuscript November 12, 1917. 
Arnold Hague, by J. P. Iddings, received in manuscript August 2, 1918. 
Eugene Woldemar Hilgard, by F. Slate, Jr., received in manuscript October 11, 1918. 
Alpheus Spring Packard, by T. D. A. Cockrell, received in manuscript October 16, 1918. 
Benjamn Osgood Peirce, by E. H. Hall, received in manuscript November 20, 1917. 
With the publication of these memoirs Volume VIII of the Biographical Memoirs will 
have been published and ready for distribution, while two thousand copies of the Third Annual 
Report of the National Research Council will be issued in a few days. The Proceedings of 
the Academy have been published regularly and have reached the third number of the fifth 
volume. 
Six members have died since the last meeting: 
George Francis Atkinson, elected 1918, died November 14, 1918. 
George F. Becker, elected 1901, died April 20, 1919. 
Maxime Bocher, elected 1909, died September 12, 1918. 
Edward C. Pickering, elected 1873, died February 3, 1919. 
Wallace C. Sabine, elected 1917, died January 10, 1919. 
Charles R. Van Hise, elected 1902, died November 19, 1918. 
One foreign associate. Sir William Crookes, elected in 1913, died April 4, 1919. 
There are now on the membership list 164 active members, 1 honorary member, and 35 
foreign associates. 
C. G. Abbot, Acting Home Secretary. 
The Foreign Secretary presented a report on the work of his ofi&ce during 
the past year, stating that it largely had to do with the organization of the 
International Research Council, and that this was fully reported on in the 
work of the National Research Council. 
Moved: That the Report of the Foreign Secretary be accepted, and the action reported 
therein of the delegates to the International Research Council be approved. (Adopted.) 
REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES ON TRUST FUNDS 
A report was received from the Directors of the Bache Fund, signed by Ed- 
win B. Frost (Chairman) stating that since the annual meeting of the Academy 
in April, 1918, grants Nos. 210-213 as announced in the Proceedings, p. 492, 
below) had been made. (A provisional grant of $1000 was made for another 
research, but the applicant had meantime started on his trip of exploration 
and has not been heard from since, so that it is not certain that the money 
will be required.) Reports on these and previous grants have been submitted 
by the recipients, to wit: 
