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REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
1, 1917, and that grants Nos. 7-8 (as announced below, p. 398) had been made. 
Reports from holders of previous grants are as follows: 
Nos. 1 and 5, Mary E. Holmes, Mt. Holyoke College. Her paper on the electrical 
deposition of copper is nearly ready for publication, and she has studied the electrical separa- 
tion of cadmium from eight other metals. 
No. 3, W. J. Hale, University of Michigan. Results published in a paper on "The for- 
mation of Cyclopentadienodihydropyridazines," /. Amer. Chem. Soc, 1916, (2537-2545). 
Record of award closed. 
No. 4, W. D. Harkests, University of Chicago. Three papers are submitted: a. "The 
Free Energy of Dilution and the Freezing-Point Lowerings in Solutions of Some Salts of 
Various Types of Ionization and of Salt Mixtures." Harkins and R. E. Hall, /. Amer. Chem. 
Soc, 38, (2658-2676). &. "The Freezing-Point Lowerings in Aqueous Solutions of Salts 
and Mixtures of Salts and of a Salt with a Non-electrolyte," Harkins and W. A. Roberts, 
Ibid., (2676-2679). c. "Studies on the Cobalt-ammines. I. Various Ionization Types as 
determined by the Freezing-Point Lowerings in Aqueous Solution, Together with Conductance 
Measurements." Harkins, Hall and Roberts, Ibid., (2643-2568). 
No. 6. G. P. Baxter, Harvard University. Studies, soon to be completed, on: a. Sources 
of error in the electrolytic determination of the atomic weight of cadmium, and analysis of 
cadmic sulphate, b. Gaseous impurities of silver and iodine, c. Relation between arsenious 
trioxide and iodine. 
A report was received from the Committee on the Murray Fund, signed by 
W. H. Dall, stating that there was a cash income balance of $274.97 and that 
owing to conditions in Europe and the North Atlantic there was no recom- 
mendation and no report of progress to be made. 
A report was received from the Committee on Biographical Memoirs, 
signed by C. B. Davenport, G. C. Comstock, A. G. Mayer, and A. L. Day, 
stating that each biographer had been circularized concerning the progress 
of the memoir in his charge. The biography of William Stimpson by A. G. 
Mayer is completed and that of F. A. P. Barnard is nearly ready. Biogra- 
phies of all members who died more than fifteen years ago are thus accounted 
for. A circular letter was sent to all members of the Academy suggesting 
that each prepare at the end of each year an autobiographical record for the 
preceding year; a number of members have utihzed this suggestion; and some 
have deposited biographical material with the Committee. 
GENERAL BUSINESS 
The Council reported the acceptance for the Academy of the gift of $8,000 
made to the National Academy of Sciences by Miss Margaret Henderson 
Elliot in pursuance of her desire to carry out a testamentary provision in the 
will of her father, Daniel Giraud ElKot, which would have been operative 
under circumstances stated in the will and applied in accordance with the terms 
of the legacy as fully set forth in the will whereby a medal, to be known as 
the Daniel Giraud Elhot gold medal, together with an accompanying diploma 
and an unexpended balance of income for the year was to be awarded annually 
to the author of such paper, essay or other work upon some branch of zoology 
or paleontology pubhshed during the year as in the opinion of the judges, 
who shall be Henry Fairfield Osborn of New York, the Scientific Director 
of the American Museum of Natural History, and the Secretary of the Smith- 
sonian Institution, shall be the most meritorious and worthy of honor. 
