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REPORT OF THE A UTUMN MEETING Proc. N. A. S. 
leigh, elected foreign associate in 1898; and Kmil Fischer, elected foreign 
associate in 1904. 
The Home Secretary stated that a Section of Engineering had been 
established and that it is now constituted as follows: Messrs. H. 
Abbot, J. J. Carty, W F. Durand, J. R. Freeman, H. M. Howe, F. B. 
Jewett, G. O. Squier, D. W. Taylor. All members of the Sections of 
Physics and Chemistry were given an opportunity to remain with the sec- 
tion with which they had been affiliated or to be placed in the Section of 
Engineering. 
Messrs. L. O. Howard, C. E. Mendenhall, and David White were ap- 
pointed to audit the accounts of the Treasurer. 
Messrs. J. C. Merriam, Gano Dunn, ly. J. Henderson, A. L- Day, and 
W. J. V. Osterhout were elected members, and Mr. Raymond Pearl 
was re-elected chairman, of the Editorial Board of the Proceedings, 
to serve for three years. Mr. E. B. Wilson was re-elected Managing Editor 
for one year. 
The following cable, prepared by the Foreign Secretary at the request 
of the President and forwarded to Nature, was read : 
"The President of the National Academy of Sciences requests me to 
offer his congratulations to Nature on the occasion of its jubilee. During 
a period of specialization Nature's extensive survey of the progress of re- 
search has stimulated wider vision and larger effort. In spite of repeated 
discouragement it has urged upon the statesmen of two generations the 
vital importance of science to the nation. At a time when the branches of 
science, no longer isolated, are uniting in common channels and when 
governments, once unappreciative, are recognizing the bearing of research 
on national security and public welfare, we rejoice in Nature's expanding 
influence and the higher opportunities opening to it in a newly ordered 
world." 
The President reported that Mrs. Mary Clark Thompson had completed 
the establishment of a fund amounting to $10,000, the income of which is 
to be applied to a gold medal of appropriate design, to be awarded annually 
by the Academy for the most important services to geology and palaeon- 
tology. The medal is to be known as the Mary Clark Thompson 
GoivD MedaIv. Mrs. Thompson previously gave an additional $1,000 
for the preliminary expenses of dies, etc. The following recommendation, 
in acknowledgment of this gift, was adopted: 
"That the National Academy of Sciences express to Mrs. Mary Clark 
Thompson the appreciation of its members, especially those working in 
the fields of geology and palaeontology, for this munificent gift to pro- 
mote the recognition of research in these subjects." 
In accordance with the recommendations of the Henry Draper Com- 
mittee, the following grants and award of medals were approved : 
1. $400 to Dr. S. A. Mitchell, Director of the Leander McCormick 
Observatory, University of Virginia, to complete the purchase of a measur- 
ing microscope for use in the photographic determination of stellar paral- 
