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REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
A report was received from the Committee on the Henry Draper Fund, 
signed by George E. Hale (chairman). The Committee recommended the 
approval of a grant from the Draper Fund of $500 to W. W. Campbell, Direc- 
tor of the Lick Observatory, for the purchase and construction of spectro- 
graphic and other apparatus for use with the Crossley Reflector. The Com- 
mittee also recommended the approval of a grant of two hundred and fifty 
dollars to S. A. Mitchell, Director of the Leander McCormick Observatory, 
for the purchase of a machine for measuring astronomical photographs. These 
recommendations were adopted by the Academy. 
A report was received from the Committee on the J. Lawrence Smith 
Fund, signed by Edward W. Morley (chairman). The report described the 
progress made on certain researches which have received aid from the Fund. 
It was announced that, in accordance with the vote passed by the Academy 
in 1912, the fourth $250 installment of the grant of one thousand dollars 
has been paid to C. C. Trowbridge, of Columbia University, in aid of his study 
of the luminous trains of meteors. The Committee recommended a grant 
of five hundred dollars to S. A. Mitchell of the University of Virginia in aid of 
computations of orbits of meteors. The Committee also recommended that 
the meteorites remaining from the purchases made by George P. Merrill, 
Curator in the Department of Geology in the United States National Museum, 
under the grants awarded to him in aid of the study of certain elements sus- 
pected to be present in small quantities in meteorites, be deposited by the 
Academy in the United States National Museum. These recommendations 
were adopted by the Academy. 
A report was received from the Directors of the Wolcott Gibbs Fund, 
signed by C. L. Jackson (chairman), describing three grants made from the 
fund during the preceding year and outlining the progress made on the re- 
searches aided by those grants. 
A summarized statement of the grants made from the various trust-funds 
of the Academy during the year ending April 15, 1915 will be found at the end 
of this number of the Proceedings. 
REPORTS FROM STANDING COMMITTEES 
A report was received from the Committee on Solar Research, signed by 
George E. Hale (chairman) calling the attention of the Academy to the pub- 
lication of volume 4 of the Transactions of the International Union for Co- 
operation in Solar Research, which contains the complete proceedings of the 
last meeting in Bonn, reports of the various committees, resolutions adopted 
by the Union, and several scientific papers on solar and stellar phenomena. 
The report states that the four volumes of Transactions already published by 
the Solar Union may be obtained from Longmans, Green & Company, New 
York City, at $2.50 per volume. 
A report was received from the Editorial Board of the Proceedings, signed 
by Arthur A. Noyes (chairman), as follows: 
