REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
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AWARD OF MEDALS 
The following medals were awarded at the annual dinner on the evening of 
April 23, 1918, at the -Cosmos Club: 
The Comstock Prize of $1500.00, to Samuel Jackson Barnett, of Ohfo State 
University, for his investigations in magnetization by rotation. 
The Henry Draper Medal, to Walter S. Adams, of the Mt. Wilson Solar 
Observatory, California, for his investigations in astrophysics. 
The Daniel Giraud Elliot Gold Medal and Honorarium, to Frank M. Chapman, 
of the American Museum of Natural History, for his memoir, " The Distribu- 
tion of Bird Life in Colombia, A Contribution to a Biological Survey of South 
America," Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 36, 1917, 
-(vii-x, 1-729). 
RESEARCH GRANTS FROM TRUST FUNDS OF THE ACADEMY 
During the twelve months preceding the Annual Meeting of the Academy 
the following grants for the promotion of research were made from the Trust 
Funds of the Academy. 
GRANTS FROM THE BACHE FUND 
No. 205, T. H. Goodspeed, University of California, $100. For studies of inheritance in 
Nicotiana hybrids. 
No. 206, Reginald A. Daly, Harvard University, $700. For the completion of the deep 
sea thermograph designed and partly constructed under Grant No. 194. In continuation of 
No. 194. 
No. 207, T. H. Gronwall, New York City, $300. To complete and extend mathemati- 
cal researches on conformal representation. 
No. 208, A. Franklin Shull, University of Michigan, $400. To investigate the cause of 
sex production and the life cycle of rotifers, together with artificial modification of life cycle; 
differential factors in fertilization of male-producing and female-producing rotifers; sex de- 
termination and the life cycle of the thrips; cause of sex production, wing production, and 
other cyclical phenomena in aphids. 
No. 209, Cecil K. Drinker, Harvard Medical School, $350. For the closer study of the 
factors involved in extension of unchecked red cells and leucocytes in the dog. 
GRANTS FROM THE WATSON FUND 
No. 16 y Herbert C. Wilson, Goodsell Observatory, $300. For a continuance of the work 
of the determination of the position and brightness of asteroids (chiefly those discovered by 
Watson) by the photographic method, together with a study of the brightness of some variable 
stars. (Supplementary to Grant No. 15). 
No. 17, John A. Miller, Sproul Observatory, $500. To measure plates for determin- 
ing stellar parallaxes (Supplementary to Grant No. 14). 
