744 REPORT OF THE AUTUMN MEETING 
GRANT FROM THE J. LAWRENCE SMITH FUND 
No. 7, George Perkins Merrill, U. S. National Museum, $500. To further aid his 
studies of rare meteorites. 
GRANT FROM THE MARSH FUND 
John M. Clark, State Hall, Albany, $400. For a study of mutualism, symbiosis, and 
dependent life among animals of geologic time. 
REPORT OF THE AUTUMN MEETING 
Prepared by the Home Secretary 
The Autumn Meeting of the Academy was held in the buildings of the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Cambridge, on November 13, 14, 
15, 1916. 
Seventy members were present as follows: Messrs. C. G. Abbot, H. L. 
Abbot, Barus, Baxter, Becker, Boas, Bogert, Boltwood, Bumstead, Cannon, 
Castle, Cattell, Chittenden, W. B. Clark, J. M. Clarke, Comstock, ConkHn, 
Crafts, Crew, Cross, Davenport, Davis, Day, Farlow, Fewkes, Folin, Goodale, 
Hale, E. H. Hall, Harper, Harrison, Hayford, Holmes, Howard, Howell, 
Iddings, Jackson, Leuschner, Lewis, Lindgren, Lusk, Mall, Mark, Mayer, 
Meltzer, Mendel, Michelson, Morley, E. S. Morse, A. A. Noyes, H. F. Osbom, 
T. B. Osborne, Parker, Pearl, Pickering, Prudden, Reid, Richards, Rosa, 
Scott, Story, Thomson, Van Hise, Walcott, Webster, Welch, Wheeler, D. 
White, Wilson, R. W. Wood. 
BUSINESS SESSIONS 
The Home Secretary announced the following deaths since the last Annual 
Meeting of the Academy: Cleveland Abbe, elected 1879, died October 28, 
1916; Josiah Royce, elected 1906, died September 14, 1916; also Sir Wilham 
Ramsay, Foreign Associate, elected 1904, died July 24, 1916. 
The Home Secretary announced that the following publications had been 
issued since the Annual Meeting : Proceedings, vol. 2, numbers 5-1 1 ; Memoirs, 
volume 14, J&rst memoir, by George P. Merrill, consisting of a Report on 
Researches on the Chemical and Mineralogical Composition of Meteorites, 
with Especial Reference to Their Minor Constituents; Biographical Memoirs 
of George William Hill by Ernest W. Brown, and of Theodore N. Gill by 
Wilham H. Dall. 
Under the rules of the Academy the following members of the Editorial 
Board of the Proceedings retire on December 1, 1916: W. B. Cannon, 
J. McK. Cattell, J. M. Coulter, S. Flexner, R. G. Harrison. The Home 
Secretary announced that the following members have been appointed by the 
Council to serve in their places until December 1, 1919; H. H. Donaldson, 
R. A. Harper, Graham Lusk, A. G. Mayer, A. A. Noyes. Raymond Pearl 
was appointed to succeed A. A. Noyes as Chairman of the Editorial Board. 
The Home Secretary also announced that an Auditing Committee has been 
appointed consisting of W. H. Dall, chairman, A. L. Day, and F. W. Clarke; 
