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"The Turquoise," by Joseph E. Pogue, has also been published and distributed to the 
members. Part 2 of this same volume entitled, "Variations and Ecological Distribution 
of the Snails of the Genus lo," by Charles C. Adams, has received final consideration, and is 
now waiting to be bound at the Government Printing Office. The memoir forming volume 
13, being "A Catalogue of the Meteorites of North America," by Oliver C. Farrington, 
only awaits press- work and binding before it is issued. 
The biographical memoirs of John Wesley Powell, Charles A. Schott, and Miers Fisher 
Longstreth have been published. The publication of the memoir of J. Peter Lesley, by 
WilHam M. Davis, has been approved by the committee on pubhcations; and the biography 
of Henry Morton, by Edward L. Nichols, has been printed and awaits the portrait. 
Three members have died since the last annual meeting: Theodore Nicholas Gill, on 
September 25, 1914, elected in 1873; Charles Sedgwick Minot, on November 19, 1914, 
elected in 1897; and Henry Lord Wheeler, on October 30, 1914, elected in 1909. 
Of our foreign associates, Edward Suess, elected in 1898, died on April 26, 1914; 
August Weismann, elected in 1913, on November 5, 1914; Hugo Kronecker, elected in 1901, 
on June 6, 1914; G. F. J. Arthur Auwers, elected in 1883, on January 24, 1915. 
There are 134 active members on the membership list, 1 honorary member, and 43 foreign 
associates. 
Respectfully submitted, Arthur L. Day, Home Secretary. 
REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES ON TRUST FUNDS 
A report was received from the directors of the Bache Fund, stating that 
the vacancy caused by the death of Charles S. Minot had been filled by the 
election by the two remaining members of the Board of Ross G. Harrison, 
and that he has accepted the appointment. The Board elected Mr. Ira 
Remsen as its Chairman. The report contained also an announcement of 
the research grants made from the Bache Fund during the year ending April 
19, 1915. 
A report was received from the Trustees of the Watson Fund, signed by 
E. C. Pickering (chairman), W. L. Elkin, and E. B. Frost. The report stated 
that the wish expressed in the will of the late James Craig Watson that 
tables be prepared of the motions of all the planets discovered by him has 
now been carried out in a most satisfactory manner by Mr. A. O. Leuschner, 
so that the income which has been used for this purpose during the last four- 
teen years is now available for the promotion of Astronomical Science in other 
directions. In the report the trustees recommended that the sum of five 
hundred dollars from the income of the Watson Fund be appropriated to 
John A. Miller, Director of the Sproul Observatory, for measuring plates 
already taken for the determination of stellar parallaxes; and that the sum of 
three hundred dollars be appropriated from the income of the Watson Fund 
to John E. Meilish, to enable him to undertake observations at the Yerkes 
Observatory. It was recommended that the Watson Medal and the sum of 
one hundred dollars be awared to Armin Otto Leuschner of the University 
of California for the skill and ability which he has shown in supervising the 
preparation of tables of the Watson asteroids, involving original methods, 
and leading to results of much value to celestial mechanics. These recom- 
mendations were adopted by the Academy. 
