REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
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Section 2. The Executive Board and each of the Divisions shall hold an annual meeting, 
at which ofl&cers shall be elected, at the time and place of the annual meeting of the Council, 
unless otherwise determined by the Executive Board, and such other meetings as may be 
required for the transaction of business. 
Section 3. Joint meetings of the Executive Board of the National Research Council and 
the Council of the National Academy of Sciences shall be held from time to time, to consider 
special requests from the Government, the selection of organizations to be represented in the 
National Research Council, and other matters which, in the judgment of the President of 
the National Academy, require the attention of both bodies. 
Article VII. — Publications and Reports 
Section 1. An annual report of the work of the National Research Council shall be pre- 
sented by the Chairman to the National Academy of Sciences, for submission to Congress 
in connection with the annual report of the President of the Academy. 
Section 2. Other publications of the National Research Council may include papers, 
bulletins, reports, and memoirs, which may appear in the Proceedings or Memoirs of the 
National Academy of Sciences, in the publications of other societies, in scientific and techni- 
cal journals, or in a separate series of the Research Council. 
The following communication from Mr. Whitman Cross, resigning the posi- 
tion of Treasurer, which he had held for eight years, was presented and 
accepted with regret, in view of the valuable services which Mr. Cross had 
rendered to the Academy. 
April 21, 1919. 
My dear Dr. Walcott: 
I hereby respectfully tender my resignation as Treasurer of the National Academy of 
Sciences, to take effect on May first, or as soon thereafter as my successor can qualify. It has 
been a great pleasure to render to the Academy such service as I could as Treasurer during 
the last eight years. It is now necessary that I should be able to devote myself exclusively 
to the completion of work which has been in progress for many years in connection with the 
United States Geological Survey. 
With high appreciation of the opportunity for connection with the work of the Academy 
for so many years, I am, very sincerely yours, 
Whitman Cross. 
The Home Secretary was requested to transmit the thanks of the Academy 
to the Signal Corps of the United States Army, the Smithsonian Institution, 
the Bureau of Standards, and to the Cosmos Club, for the courtesies extended 
during the meeting. 
ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS 
C. G. Abbot was unanimously elected Home Secretary. 
F. L. Ransome was unanimously elected Treasurer. 
J. J. Carty, H. H. Donaldson, and Raymond Pearl were elected members 
of the Council. 
The following persons were elected as new members of the Academy. 
