Vot. 6, 1920 
REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
443 
NER, Langmuir, Lkuschner, Lewis, Lindgren, Lusk, Lyman, Meltzer- 
Mendel, C. E. Mendenhall, C. H. Merriam, J. C. Merriam, Merritt, 
M1CHE1.SON, MiivUKAN, B. F. Nichols, A. A. Noyes, W. A. Noyes, 
Parker, Pearl, Ransome, Reid, Remsen, Rosa, Russell, SchlEsinger, 
Setchell, Erwin F. Smith, Squier, Stieglitz, Stratton, Thomson, 
Thorndike, Trowbridge, Veblen, Walcott, Webster, Welch, 
Wheeler, D. White, H. S. White, Edwin B. Wilson, R. W. Wood, 
Woodward. 
BUSINESS SESSIONS 
The President announced the deaths of two members since the Autumn 
Meeting: Louis V. Pirsson and Horatio C. Wood. The preparation 
of the biography of Louis V. Pirsson was assigned to Joseph P. Iddings. 
The resignation of E. W. MorlEy as Chairman of the J. Lawrence 
Smith Fund was presented by the President, and accepted. 
Sections and Committees. — The election of J. J. CarTy to succeed Gano 
Dunn as Chairman of the Engineering Section, term expiring in 1923, 
and of H. A. Bumstead to succeed E. L- Nichols as Chairman of the Sec- 
tion of Physics, term expiring in 1923, were announced. 
The President announced the following committee appointments: 
COMMITTEE ON 
APPOINTED 
TO SUCCEED 
TERM 
EXPIRING 
Henry Draper Fund 
H. N. Russell 
Joseph S. Ames 
1925 
J. Lawrence Smith Fund 
W. Cross, Chairman 
E. W. Morley 
1924 
Walter S. Adams 
H. W. Morley 
1924 
Frank Schlesinger 
A. 0. Leuschner 
1925 
Comstock Fund 
John J. Carty 
Elihu Thomson 
1925 
Marsh Fund 
H. A. Brumstead 
Edward S. Dana 
1923 
Murray Fund 
Alfred G. Mayor 
George H. Parker 
1923 
Marcellus Hartley Fund 
David W. Taylor 
Arthur G. Webster 
1923 
William H. Welch 
Theobald Smith 
1923 
Mary Clark Thompson 
Waldemar Lindgren 
Gano Dunn 
1923 
Reports. — The Annual Report of the President to Congress for 1919 
was presented and distributed. 
The report of the Treasurer was presented in printed form and ap- 
proved. 
The Home Secretary presented the following report: 
The President of the National Academy of Sciences. 
Sir: 
I have the honor to present the following report on the publications and membership 
of the National Academy of Sciences for the year ending April 26, 1920. 
Two parts of Volume 14 of the Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences have 
been completed and distributed: the second memoir, "Complete Classification of Triad 
Systems," by H. S. White, F. N. Cole and L. D. Cummings, and the fourth memoir, 
"Minor Constituents of Meteorites," by G. P. Merrill. 
