REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
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now in press as Bulletin 106 of the United States National Museum, consisting of 162 quarto 
plates and a correspondingly large number of text figures and pages of text. With this as- 
sistance we have also completed a study on 'Early Tertiary Cyclostomatous Bryozoa/ which 
when printed, will amount to about 100 pages of text and 30 to 40 plates." 
A report was received from the Committee on the Murray Fund, signed by 
Wm. H. Dall (Chairman), stating that the total amount of income available 
from this fund according to the Treasurer, is $916.91; of which $516.91 was 
in cash and $400 in Liberty Bonds; and that the Committee duly reported 
their recommendation in regard to the award of the medal which was approved 
by the Council, and would be carried out at the dinner on April 29, 1919. 
GENERAL BUSINESS 
A report by the Auditing Committee, C. G. Abbot, L. O. Howard, and 
David White, stating that the regular financial statement of the Treasurer and 
the special account in support of the Division of Medicine of the National 
Research Councils had been duly audited and found correct. 
The following report of the Editorial Board of the Proceedings or the 
National Academy or Sciences was received: 
The Editorial Board reports as follows regarding its activities during the past year : Vol- 
ume 4 of the Proceedings has been completed, and the numbers of Volume 5 are being regu- 
larly issued each month. 
The articles in Volume 4 of the Proceedings maybe summarized as follows: Mathematics, 
9; Astronomy, 11; Physics and Engineering, 25; Chemistry, 5; Geology and Paleontology, 
including Mineralogy and Petrology, 9; Botany, 3; (see also Genetics); Zoology, including 
General Biology, 12, (see also Genetics); Genetics, 6; Physiology and Pathology, 10; Anthro- 
pology and Psychology, 1; a total of 91 articles. The division of these articles between 
members of the Academy and non-members is 39 and 52 respectively. 
The list of institutions which have contributed three or more articles is as follows: Car- 
negie Institution, 15, divided as follows: Solar Observatory, 7; Nutrition Laboratory, 4; 
Geophysical Laboratory, 1; Marine Biology, 2; Station for Experimental Evolution, 1; 
Harvard University, 15; Brown University, 7; University of Illinois, 5; Bermuda Biological 
Station for Research, 4; University of California, 4; University of Chicago, 4; University of 
Pennsylvania, 4. 
On April 28, 1919 the Editorial Board held its annual meeting, the following members 
being present: Messrs. Pearl, Wilson, Day, Hale, Clarke, Jennings, Lusk, Mayor, Millikan, 
A. A. Noyes, W. A. Noyes, Thorndike, and Wheeler. In regard to the general editorial pol- 
icy of the Proceedings, it was held to be desirable to make the Proceedings, in so far as 
possible, a publication of permanent original, scientific value, in which duplication of publi- 
cation should be avoided so far as was consistent with the general policy which has prevailed 
in the Proceedings throughout its existence of publishing short articles embodying a brief 
statement of the results of important researches which were eventually to be published in 
detail elsewhere. It was agreed that the rule of the Proceedings requiring prior publication 
should be waived in the case of summaries of an extended series of papers, some (if not all) 
of which had already appeared elsewhere, provided that the summary was so written as to 
be of practical use in enforcing the points made in individual papers and in attracting the 
attention of workers in related fields, thus making the summary in the Proceedings a real 
contribution to the subject. 
