MINUTES. Stated Meeting, January 7, 1921. WILLIAM B. SCOTT, Sc.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair. The decease was announced of Henry A. Bumstead, A.B., Ph.D., on December 31, 1920, æt. 50. The Judges of the Annual Election held this day between the hours of 2 and 5 in the afternoon reported that the following-named members were elected to be the officers for the ensuing year: President. William B. Scott. Vice-Presidents. George Ellery Hale, Hampton L. Carson. Secretaries. I. Minis Hays, Arthur W. Goodspeed, John A. Miller. Curators. William P. Wilson, Leslie W. Miller, Henry H. Donaldson. Treasurer. Eli Kirk Price. Councillors. (To serve for three years.) Bradley M. Davis, W. C. Farrabee, John Frederick Lewis, Edwin Bidwell Wilson. It was ordered that the Annual General Meeting of 1921 be held on April 21, 22, and 23 of that year. Stated Meeting, February 4, 1921. WILLIAM B. SCOTT, Sc.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair. The decease was announced of Joseph G. Rosengarten, A.M., LL.D., at Philadelphia, on January 14, 1921, æt. 85. Prof. John C. Merriam read a paper entitled "Researches on the Antiquity of Man in California" (illustrated by numerous lantern slides), which was discussed by Professors Scott and Merriam. Stated Meeting, March 4, 1921. WILLIAM B. SCOTT, Sc.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair. The decease was announced of: William T. Sedgwick, Ph.D., Sc.D., at Boston, on January 25, 1921, æt. 65. Daniel Baugh, at Palm Beach, Florida, on February 27, 1921. Stated Meeting, April 1, 1921. WILLIAM B. SCOTT, Sc.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair. Decease was announced of Wilhelm von Waldeyer, Professor of Anatomy at the University of Berlin, on ———, 1921, æt. 85. Dr. Arthur W. Goodspeed read a paper entitled "Another Story about Radium," with experimental illustrations, which was discussed by Professors Miller, Scott, Keller and Goodspeed. Stated General Meeting, April 21, 22, and 23, 1921. WILLIAM B. SCOTT, Sc.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka and Mr. J. Franklin Jameson, newly elected members, subscribed the Laws and were admitted into the Society. The decease was announced of: Prof. Ernest Nys, at Brussels, on September 21, 1920, æt. 69. HAMPTON L. CARSON, M.A., LL.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. The following papers were read: "The Roger Bacon Cipher," by William Romaine Newbold, Ph.D., Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania. "Influence of the Humboldt Current on the Distribution and Abundance of Marine Life," by Robert Cushman Murphy, Associate Curator of Marine Birds, American Museum of Natural History, New York (introduced by Mr. Bryant), which was discussed by Prof. Webster. "The Peopling of Asia," by Ales Hrdlicka, Ph.D., Curator in Anthropology, National Museum, Washington, which was discussed by Messrs. Fisher, Jastrow and Webster. "On Population Growth," by Raymond Pearl, Professor of Biometry and Vital Statistics, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, and Lowell J. Reed. "Transportation Problems Confronting the American People,” by Emory R. Johnson, Litt.M., Ph.D., Sc.D., Professor of Transportation and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania. "English German Commercial Rivalry in the late Sixteenth Century," by Edward P. Cheyney, A.M., LL.D., Professor of European History, University of Pennsylvania. "Early Methods of Communication between China and the Mediterranean," by W. H. Schoff, Secretary of the Commercial Museum, Philadelphia (introduced by Dr. W. P. Wilson), which was discussed by Dr. Jastrow. "Notes on the Manichaean Fragments from Turfan," by A. V. Williams Jackson, A.M., LL.D., Professor of Indo-Iranian Languages, Columbia University. "On the Problem of Steering an Automobile Around a Corner." "On the Vibration of Gun-barrels," by Arthur G. Webster, Professor of Physics, Clark University, Worcester, Mass. Friday, April 22. Executive Session, 9: 30 o'clock. WILLIAM B. SCOTT, Sc.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair. Mr. Heber D. Curtis, Mr. Ambrose Swasey, and Dr. C. H. Eigenmann, newly elected members, subscribed the Laws and were admitted into the Society. The Officers and Council presented a report with a list of fifteen nominees selected from the pending nominations for membership whom they recommended for election this year. The reports of the Treasurer and of the Finance Committee were presented and the appropriations for 1922, as recommended by the Finance Committee, were then voted. Morning Session, 10 o'clock. WILLIAM B. SCOTT, Sc.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair. The following papers were read: "Propylene Glycol Dinitrate," by Charles E. Munroe, Ph.D., "The Proteins of Living Plants," by Thomas B. Osborne, "Discussion of a Kinetic Theory of Gravitation." "Some New Experiments in Gravitation," by Charles F. Brush, Sc.D., LL.D., Cleveland, which was discussed by Professors E. F. Nichols, Webster, Pupin and Goodspeed. "The Nature and Origin of the Fresh Water Fish Fauna of Chili and the Pacific Slope of Ecuador," by Carl H. Eigenmann, A.M., Ph.D., Professor of Zoology, Indiana University. "The Relation between the Chromatin of the Nucleus and Sim ilar Materials in the Cell Body," by David H. Tennent, Ph.D., Professor of Zoology, Bryn Mawr College (introduced by "Malnutrition as a Cause of Irregularities in the Segregation of Enothera brevistylis from Crosses with Enothera Lamarckiana," by Bradley M. Davis, Ph.D., Professor of Botany, University of Michigan. "Growth and Other Changes in Tree Trunks Measured by the Dendrograph." "The Effect of Bases and Salts on the Hydration of Biocolloids and Cell-Masses," by D. T. MacDougal, M.A., Ph.D., LL.D., Director of Department of Botanical Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Tucson, Arizona. "A Natural Group of Unusual Black Oaks," by William Trelease, Sc.D., LL.D., Professor of Botany, University of Illinois. "The Grass Rusts of the Andes Based on Collections by Mr. and Mrs. Holway," by Joseph Charles Arthur, Sc.D., LL.D., Professor Emeritus of Botany, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. "The Effect of Tension on the Electrical Resistance of Several of the More Unusual Metals," by P. W. Bridgman, Professor of Physics, Harvard University. Contributions to Dental Physiology," by William J. Gies, "The Ammono Carbonic Acids," by E. C. Franklin, Ph.D., Afternoon Session, 2 o'clock. WILLIAM B. SCOTT, Sc.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair. Laws and was admitted into the Society. The following papers were read: "The Atomic Theory and Ideal Numbers," by L. E. Dickson, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics, University of Chicago, which was discussed by Prof. Nipher. "The Turtle-Oredon Layer' or 'Red Layer,' a Contribution to the Stratigraphy of the White River Oligocene." |