PROCEEDINGS. 
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The following members were transferred from the active to 
the absent list: 
Charles Colt Yates. Herbert Friedenwald. 
The following members resigned membership: 
Henry Gannett. Lester Frank Ward. 
William Henry Holmes. Bailey Willis. 
Frederick Haynes Newell. 
The following was transferred from absent to active list: 
Louis Agricola Bauer. 
The General Committee held 16 meetings, at which the aver¬ 
age attendance was 10. 
The Society held 18 meetings, of which 14 were devoted to 
reading and discussion of papers, one to the President’s annual 
address (Mr. G. M. Sternberg, on Malaria), one to the annual 
meeting for reports and election of officers, and one a special 
meeting held at the H. S. Navy Yard. By the courtesy of the 
Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of the Bureau of Construc¬ 
tion, IJ. S. N., an invitation was extended to the Society to visit 
the Experimental Model Basin, where experiments vrere con¬ 
ducted by Mr. D. W. Taylor, who also read a paper upon “The 
Work of the Experimental Model Basin.” 
Obituary notices of four deceased members were read as fol¬ 
lows : 
W. W. Godding. D. W. Prentiss. 
H. A. Hazen. Samuel Silellabarger. 
Seven papers were published during the year, viz: (1) Keport 
of the Committee on Mathematical Science for 1899-—Geodesy, 
J. F. Hayford ; Astrophysics, J. G. Hagen; Astronomy, T. J. 
J. See; (2) Linear Differential Equations, F. G. Radelfinger; 
(3) The Language of Hawaii, E. D. Preston; (4) Some Dis¬ 
continuous and Indeterminate Functions, C. K. Wead; (5) Vec¬ 
tor-Differentiation, Alexander Macfarlane; (6) Obituary 
Notices: 
Thomas Antisell. .............1817-1893. 
Stephen Vincent Benet. .1827-1895. 
Thomas Lincoln Casey ........1831-1896. 
Daniel Currier Chapman __ .1826-1895. 
