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REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
I am instructed to forward to yo.u their answer, the text of which is here enclosed. 
I have the honor to be, dear Mr. Secretary, 
Sincerely yours, Jusserand. 
Mr. Hale, (Signed) 
Foreign Secretary 
National Academy of Sciences, 
Washington, D. C. 
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C. Paris, 13 avril, 1917. 
L'Academie des Sciences de I'lnstitut de France est heureuse de saluer I'aide que votre 
noble pays apporte au notre, et a ses allies dans leur lutte pour le droit et la liberte. 
File vous remercie de votre offre, et sera heureuse de collaborer avec I'Academie Nationale 
des Sciences pour la solution des problemes scientifiques interessant la defense nationale 
et I'industrie. A. Lacroix, 
Emile Picard, 
Secretaires Perpetuels. 
The Foreign Secretary presented the following communication from the 
Royal Society, London, received through the Ambassador from Great Britain 
to the United States. 
Dr. George E. Hale, Washington, D. C. 
The Royal Society heartily welcomes the offer of the National Academy to co-operate 
in scientific researches connected with the war, and will communciate by letter proposals 
for carrying this into effect. Thomson, President. 
ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS 
President. — Mr. Charles Doolittle Walcott was unanimously elected 
President for a term of six years to expire in 1923. 
Vice-President. — Mr. A. A. Michelson was unanimously elected Vice- 
President for a term of six years to expire in 1923. 
Treasurer. — Mr. Whitman Cross was unanimously elected to succeed 
himself for a term of six years to expire in 1923. 
Two Members of the Council. — Mr. A. A. Noyes and Mr. E. G. Conklin 
were elected to succeed themselves for terms of three years each to expire in 
1920. 
The following persons were elected as new members of the Academy. 
Harvey Gushing, Surgeon, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 
Robert Ridgway, Ornithologist, United States National Museum, Washington, D. C. 
Willis Rodney Whitney, Chemist, General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. 
Liberty Hyde Bailey, Horticulturalist, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
John J. Carty, Electrical Engineer, American Telegraph and Telephone Company, 
New York, N. Y. 
Walter Sydney Adams, Astronomer, Mount Wilson Solar Observatory of Carnegie 
Institution, Pasadena, Cal. 
Henry Marion Howe, Metallurgist, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, 
New York, N. Y. 
Edward Kasner, Mathematician, Columbia University, New York, N. Y. 
Wallace C. Sabine, Physicist, Harvard University, Cambridge Mass. 
Edward Oscar Ulrich, Paleontologist, U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. 
William Frederick Durand, Mechanical Engineer, Leland Stanford Junior Uni- 
versity, Stanford University, Cal. 
