REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
303 
A report was received from the Committee on the ComstockFund, signed by 
Edw. L. Nichols (chairman). The Committee reported that the total in- 
come from the fund now available is $1661.32. The next award will be made 
at the end of the five-year period specified in the bequest, namely, at the an- 
nual meeting in April, 1918. 
A report was received from the Directors of the Walcott Gibbs Fund, signed 
by the three directors. The report stated that T. W. Richards was elected 
to fill the vacancy caused by the withdrawal of Ira Remsen from the board. 
Only one appropriation had been made from the income of the Fund — a 
grant (No. 6) to Professor Gregory P. Baxter of Cambridge of $300 to provide 
apparatus, especially of platinum and quartz, and materials for his researches 
on atomic weights and changes of volume during solution. The unexpended 
income of the fund was stated to be $90.77. A brief account was given of the 
progress made on the researches aided by previous grants. 
A report was received from the Committee on the Murray Fund, signed by 
Arnold Hague (chairman). The Committee announced that the unusual 
expenses due to the designing and striking off of the Agassiz medal, as called 
for by the terms of the gift, has required all the early income; but that from 
now on the interest from the fund will be applied for the striking off of the 
Agassiz medal and contributions to oceanography. 
A summarized statement of the grants made from the various trust-funds 
of the Academy during the year ending April 17, 1916, will be found at the 
end of this number of the Proceedings. 
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF EDITORS OF THE PROCEEDINGS 
The Board of Editors of the Proceedings reported to the Academy as 
follows : 
The twelve numbers of the Proceedings issued since its last annual report contain 157 
original papers, the report of the Annual and Autumn Meetings, notices of scientific memoirs, 
and the report of the Panama Canal Committee. These numbers consist of 641 pages, an 
average of 53 pages per number, and of about 4 pages per article. The papers are distributed 
among different sciences as follows: mathematics, 17, astronomy 37, physics 11, chemistry 12, 
geology, paleontology, and mineralogy 16, botany 3, zoology 13, genetics 17, physiology, 
pathology, bacteriology, and biochemistry 16, anthropology 13, psychology 2. 
The universities or research laboratories that have contributed three or more papers are 
as follows: Carnegie Institution 32, divided as follows: Mount Wilson Solar Observatory 22, 
Nutrition Laboratory 4, Marine Biology 3, Terrestrial Magnetism 1, Botanical Research 1, 
Geophysical Laboratory, 1; University of California 17; Harvard University 16; Johns Hop- 
kins University 14; University of Chicago 13; Yale University 7; Rockefeller Institute 7; 
Princeton University 6; U. S. Geological Survey 5; U. S. National Museum 5; Station for 
Experimental Evolution 4; University of IlHnois 3; American Museum of Natural History 3. 
The edition of the Proceedings was reduced from 3000 to 2200 copies with the issue of 
May, 1915, and it is to be further reduced to 1700 copies with the issue of May, 1916, as 
the distribution of free copies in America is to be now entirely discontinued. At present about 
900 copies are mailed to foreign exchanges and about 250 copies to members of the Academy 
and other American subscribers. 
