REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
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ing the proposition to appoint an international commission to prepare a univer- 
sal alphabet," and that the report be submitted to the President of the Acad- 
emy, who in turn will transmit it to the chairman of the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs of the House of Representatives, reporting his action in the matter at 
the next annual meeting of the Academy. 
Messrs. Dewey, Bell, Lindgren, Cattell, and Boas were appointed members 
of this committee. 
The Council also recommended to the Academy the appointment of a 
committee to discuss possible plans of cooperation with a committee of engi- 
neers. A committee was appointed, consisting of George E. Hale, chairman; 
J. S. Ames, John F. Hayford, E. L. Nichols, M. I. Pupin, E. B. Rosa, Elihu 
Thomson, C. R. Van Hise, C. D. Walcott, and R. S. Woodward. 
The President announced that an invitation had been received from the 
members of the Academy living in Boston that the Academy hold its Autumn 
Meeting in the year 1916 in that city. The following members were appointed 
to serve as a local committee of this meeting: William M. Davis, chairman, 
W. T. Councilman, Arthur A. Noyes, George H. Parker and E. C. Pickering. 
ELECTION OF FOREIGN SECRETARY, COUNCILLORS AND NEW MEMBERS 
Mr. George E. Hale was reelected foreign secretary of the Academy for 
a term of six years. 
R. H. Chittenden and M. I. Pupin were elected members of the Council 
for a term of three years. 
The following persons were elected to membership in the Academy: 
Gilbert Ames Bliss, mathematician, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. 
Frank Schlesinger, astronomer, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Gregory Paul Baxter, chemist, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 
Marston Taylor Bogert, chemist, Columbia University, New York City. 
Leland Ossian Howard, entomologist, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 
Alfred Goldsborough Mayer, zoologist, Carnegie Institution, Tortugas, Florida. 
Raymond Pearl, biologist, Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono, Maine. 
Phoebus Aaron Theodore Levene, physiological chemist, Rockefeller Institute for 
Medical Research, New York City. 
Otto Folin, physiological chemist, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. 
SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS 
Two pubhc lectures on the William Ellery Hale Foundation were given 
on April 17 and 19 by Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American 
Museum of Natural History, on The Origin and Evolution of Life on the 
Earth. 
Four pubHc scientific sessions were held on April 17 and 18 at which the 
following papers were presented : 
symposium on the exploration of the pacific, arranged by W. M. DAVIS 
W. M. Davis: On exploration of the Pacific. 
J. F. Hayfoed: The importance of gravity observations at sea in the Pacific. 
