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dressed to the Home Secretary. Such envelopes shall be opened only by the tellers. If 
in any case the telleis are unable to determine who cast a ballot, or if the latter contains 
more names than are to be voted for, the ballot shall be rejected; but minor defects in a 
ballot shall be disregarded when the intent of the voter is obvious. 
V. 1. The publication of the Proceedings shall be under the general charge of the 
Council, which shall have final jurisdiction upon all questions of policy relating thereto. 
' The preparation of the Proceedings for publication shall be entrusted to an Editorial 
Board. This board shall consist of a chairman and a managing editor, both of whom shall 
be appointed by the Council for definite terms of service; of the Home Secretary and 
Foreign Secretary, ex ofl5ciis; and of a body of associate editors representing the various 
branches of science which are to be included in the scope of the Proceedings. The man- 
aging editor, who may be a non-member of the Academy, shall receive a salary which shall 
be fixed by the Council. It shall be the duty of the managing editor to prepare the Pro- 
ceedings in detail for publication; but the chairman of the Editorial Board shall decide, 
in consultation with the managing editor, in regard to the acceptance, rejection, or sub- 
stantial modification of papers offered for publication. The associate editors shall be 
appointed by the Council, upon recommendation of the chairman of the Editorial Board, 
for a period of three years, one-third of them retiring annually. The Home Secretary and 
the Foreign Secretary shall be responsible for the distribution of the Proceedings in their 
respective fields. 
VI. 5. The standing committee on finance shall consist of the Treasurer ex officio as 
chairman and two members to be appointed annually by the President. 
ELECTION OF COUNCILLORS AND OF NEW MEMBERS 
J. M. Coulter and W. H. Howell were elected members of the Council 
for a period of three years, to succeed W. T. Councilman and R. S. Woodward, 
whose terms of service had expired. 
The following persons were elected as new members of the Academy: 
Henry Seely White, Mathematician, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
Charles Greeley Abbot, Astrophysicist, Astrophysical Observatory, Smithson- 
ian Institution, Washington, D. C. 
Robert Andrews Millikan, Physicist, University of Chicago, Chicago, 111. 
Alexander Smith, Chemist, Columbia University, New York City. 
Samuel Wendell Williston, Paleontologist, University of Chicago, Chicago, 111. 
William Ernest Castle, Zoologist, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 
Frank Rattray Lillie, Zoologist, University of Chicago, Chicago, 111. 
Graham Lusk, Physiologist, Cornell University Medical College, New York City. 
Victor Clarence Vaughan, Pathologist, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 
Granville Stanley Hall, Psychologist, Clark University, Worcester, Mass. 
SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS 
Two public lectures on the William Ellery Hale Foundation were 
given on April 19 and 21 by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, of the Uni- 
versity of Chicago, on the Evolution of the Earth. 
A public illustrated lecture was given by George H. Parker, Official 
Representative of the Academy upon the Special Commission appointed by 
the President of the United States to study and report upon the Alaskan 
Fur Seals during the summer of 1914, on The Fur Seal Herd of the Pribilof 
Islands. 
