REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
325 
The Editorial Board of the Proceedings reports to the Academy that four numbers 
of the Proceedings have now been issued containing sixty-nine original papers in addi- 
tion to the report of the Autumn Meeting, notices of scientific memoirs, and announce- 
ments. These numbers have consisted of 258 pages, an average of 64 pages per number 
and of about four pages per article. The papers are distributed among different sciences 
as follows: mathematics, 11; astronomy, 11; physics, none; chemistry, 13; geology, 2; 
paleontology, 1; botany, 4; zoology, 5; genetics, 5; bacteriology, 2; physiology, 8; pathology, 
none; anthropology, 5; psychology, 2. It will be noticed that the subjects of physics, of 
geology and paleontology, and of pathology, have been very inadequately represented; and 
the Editorial Board urges members of the Academy in these fields to endeavor to remedy 
this situation. 
An edition of 3000 copies of these four numbers has been printed. Of this edition about 
900 are to be sent abroad to the libraries of universities and other active research institu- 
tions upon a mailing list prepared with great care by the Foreign Secretary aided by mem- 
bers of the Editorial Board. Of this edition 1200 copies have also been distributed in 
this country by the Home Secretary to important libraries and to the thousand persons 
whose names are starred in Cattell's American Men of Science. 
A report was received from the Committee on the Collection of Historical 
Portraits, Manuscripts, and Instruments, signed by Charles D. Walcott 
(chairman). The committee announced in this report that the collection of 
portraits of members of the Academy has been brought together and arranged 
alphabetically; that the foreign secretary has turned over to the Committee 
the medal from the Groningen Academy celebrating its four hundredth anni- 
versary; and that many photographs and certain pieces of apparatus have 
been presented by Mrs. Henry Draper and have been deposited in the United 
States National Museum. 
GENERAL BUSINESS 
Upon recommendation of the Council it was voted to accept the bequest 
of Mrs. Mary Anna Palmer Draper provided for by the following paragraph 
of her will: '^I give and bequeath to the National Academy of Sciences,, 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C, the sum of twenty-five thou- 
sand dollars ($25,000)." 
The President announced that an invitation had been received from the 
members of the Academy living in New York City to hold the Autumn Meet- 
ing there, and that this invitation had been accepted. 
REVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND RULES 
The draft of the Constitution as amended and adopted in Committee of the 
Whole at the Chicago Meeting was presented for final action and adopted by 
the Academy on April 21, 1915. 
This Constitution is printed on pages 30-37 of the Report of the Academy 
for the Year 1914, in such a way as to show clearly the new amendments. 
The most important of these provides that 15 (instead of 10) new members 
may be elected annually until the total membership of the Academy shall 
reach 250 (instead of 150). Another amendment provides that ''the Academy 
