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REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
Section of Anthropology and Psychology: J. Walter Fewkes, Acting 
Chairman. 
Local Committee: Whitman Cross, Chairman, David White, Frederick 
L. Ransome, Raymond Pearl, Edward 0. Ulrich. 
Other committee appointments with dates of expiration, were as follows: 
Program: E. L. Thorndike to serve unexpired term of J. McKeen 
Cattell 1920. 
Henry Draper Fund: George E. Hale, to succeed himself, 1923. 
J. Lawrence Smith Fund: E. S. Dana t© succeed himself, 1923. 
Comstock Fund: E. L. Nichols to succeed himself as member and Chair- 
man ,1923. 
Marsh Fund: Charles Schuchert to succeed himself, 1921. 
Murray Fund : William H. Dall to succeed himself as member and Chair- 
man, 1921. 
Marcellus Hartley Fund: Henry F. Osborn and Michael I. Pupin to suc- 
ceed themselves, 1921. 
Barnard Medal: A. A. Noyes, Chairman; T. H. Morgan to succeed R. S. 
Woodward. 
The report of the Treasurer was presented in printed form and approved. 
The report of the Home Secretary was presented as follows: 
April 22, 1918. 
The President of the National A cademy of Sciences. 
Sir: I have the honor to present the following report on the publications and member 
ship of the National Academy of Sciences for the year ending April 24, 1918. 
No Scientific Memoirs have been published during the year, but "The Complete Classi- 
fication of the Triad Systems in Fifteen Elements," by H. S. White, F. N. Cole and Miss L. 
D. Cummins, recommended to be published as one of the Memoirs of the National Academy 
of Sciences, was approved by the Committee on Publication and is now in the hands of the 
Public Printer. The actual publication may be delayed, owing to war conditions. 
Of the Biographical Memoirs, that of John Shaw Billings, by S. Wier Mitchell, with 
the Scientific Work of John Shaw Billings, by Fielding H. Garrison ; and William Stimpson, by 
Alfred G. Mayer, have been published. The former has been distributed, while that of Stimp- 
son has just come from the printer. The manuscript of the Biographical Memoir of James 
Wright Dana, by L. V. Pirsson, Cleveland Abbe, by W. J. Humphreys, and William Bullock 
Clark, by John M. Clarke, are in the hands of the Committee on Printing; that of Benjamin O. 
Peirce, by Edwin H. Hall, is now in galley proof. 
The Annual Report for 1917 has been published and is ready for distribution. The Pro- 
ceedings of the Academy have been published regularly and have reached the third number of 
the fourth volume. 
Four members have died since the last meeting. William Bullock Clark, elected in 1908, 
died July 27, 1917; James M. Crafts, elected in 1872, died June 21, 1917; Arnold Hague, 
elected in 1885, died May 15, 1917; Franklin Paine Mall, elected in 1907, died November 17, 
1917, and one foreign associate, Adolf von Baeyer, died in August, 1917. 
Fifteen new members were elected in April, 1917, making 157 active members on the 
present membership list; one honorary member and 36 foreign associates. 
Arthur L. Day, Home Secretary. 
