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REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
Prepared by the Home Secretary 
The Annual Meeting of the Academy was held in the Oak Room of the 
Raleigh Hotel and in the National Museum at Washington, D. C, on April 
19, 20, and 21, 1915. 
Sixty-one members were present, as follows: Messrs. Abel, Becker, Bell, 
Boltwood, Britton, Bumstead, Cattell, Chamberlin, Chittenden, W. B. Clark, 
F. W. Clarke, J. M. Clarke, Conklin, Coulter, Cross, Dall, Davenport, Davis, 
Day, Donaldson, Fewkes, Frost, Hague, Hale, Harper, Harrison, Hayford, 
Hillebrand, Holmes, Howell, Jennings, Loeb, Mall, Meltzer, Mendel, Mer- 
riam, Michelson, Moore, Morgan, Morley, E. L. Nichols, A. A. Noyes, W. 
A. Noyes, H. F. Osborn, T. B. Osborne, Parker, Pickering, Pirsson, Ran- 
some, Reid, Remsen, Schuchert, Scott, Erwin F. Smith, Walcott, Webster, 
Welch, Wheeler, White, R. W. Wood, Woodward. 
The President announced that the preparation of Biographical Memoirs 
of deceased members had been assigned as follows: 
The reports of the President and of the Treasurer for 1914 as transmitted 
to the Senate of the United States by the President of the Academy were 
presented in their printed form and approved. 
The report of the Home Secretary was presented as follows: 
The President of the National Academy of Sciences. 
Sir: I have the honor to present the annual report of the home secretary of the National 
Academy of Sciences for the year ending April 21, 1915. 
Of the Scientific Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, volume 12, part 1, bear- 
ing the title, "Monograph of the Bombycine Moths of North America," by A. S. Packard, 
edited by T. D. A. Cockerell, has been published and distributed to the members, foreign 
associates, institutions, and reference libraries. Volume 12, part 3, of the Memoirs, entitled, 
BUSINESS SESSIONS 
Memoir of 
Assigned to 
BowDiTCH, Henry P. 
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp 
Mitchell, Henry 
Mitchell, Silas Weir 
Chandler, Seth Carlo 
Peirce, Benjamin Osgood 
HoLDEN, Edward Singleton 
Hill, George Willlam 
Peirce, Charles Sanders 
Gill, Theodore Nicholas 
Minot, Charles Sedgwick 
Billings, John S. 
Cannon, Walter B. 
Comstock, George C. 
Hayford, John F. 
Welch, William H. 
Elkin, William L. 
Hall, Edwin H. 
Campbell, William W. 
Brown, E. W. 
Cattell, J. McKeen. 
Dall, William H. 
Donaldson, Henry H. 
Garrison, Fielding H. 
REPORTS FROM OFFICERS OF THE ACADEMY 
