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REPORT OF THE AUTUMN MEETING 
BUSINESS SESSIONS 
The President announced the following deaths since the last Annual Meet- 
ing of the Academy: Arnold Hague, elected 1885, died May 15, 1917; J. M. 
Crafts, elected 1872, died June 21, 1917; William B. Clark, elected 1908, died 
July 27 ,1917, and Franklin P. Mall, elected 1907, died November 17, 1917; 
also Adolf von Baeyer, Foreign Associate, elected 1898, died August, 1917. 
The President also announced the assignment of the following biographical 
memoirs: Arnold Hague to J. P. Iddings; William Bullock Clark to John M. 
Clarke; and Franklin P. Mall to R. G. Harrison. 
Under the rules of the Academy the following members of the Editorial 
Board of the Proceedings retire December 1, 1917; E. G. Conklin, C. B. Dav- 
enport, E. B. Frost, W. H. Holmes, and E. H. Moore. The Home Secretary 
announced that the following members had been appointed by the Council to 
serve in their places until December 1, 1920: Jacques Loeb, W. M. Wheeler, 
E. B. Frost, E. L. Thorndike, and E. H. Moore. E. B. Wilson was reappointed 
Managing Editor for one year. 
The President appointed an Auditing Committee consisting of C. G. Abbot, 
chairman, W. F. Durand, and A. L. Day. 
Considering the request of Mr. JuUus Stieglitz, member for the United States 
of the International Commission on Annual Tables of Constants and Numeri- 
cal Data, asking on behalf of the Commission for a continuation of the support 
of the Academy in the publication of the tables under the patronage of the 
International Association of Academies, the following grant was approved: 
That a grant of $200, or such portion of it as may be approved by the President and For- 
eign Secretary, be made from the general funds of the Academy as a subvention in support 
of the annual tables of constants published under the patronage of the International Associa- 
tion of Academies. 
The following minute from the Council relating to the development of a 
Section of Engineering was approved: 
It was the sense of the Council that the Home Secretary be requested to obtain suggestions 
from members of the Academy of names of engineers to be considered by the Council for 
nomination at the next annual meeting. 
Considering a communication from the American Association of Univer- 
sity Professors, requesting cooperation in the classification of scientific men 
for war service, the following re<:ommendations were adopted by the Academy 
and forwarded to the Secretary of War: 
The National Academy of Sciences, being convinced that such action is absolutely neces- 
sary for the successful prosecution of the war, urges that the privilege of enlistment granted 
to the medical profession, including students and internes, under orders of the War Depart- 
ment, Office of the Surgeon-General, dated September 4, 1917, if not already provided for by 
the intended interpretation of the new classification of drafted men, be expanded to embrace 
men in the following scientific professions, including junior, senior and graduate students in 
educational or research institutions, so that all such men may be privileged to enroll in the 
