The times., 1901-04-17
MANY SCIENTISTS OF NOTE
The National Academy Opens Its
Annual Session.
Executive Business Considered mt
Yesterdays Meeting-The Draper
Medal Awarded to Sir William
Higgins Programme for To-day.

Medal Awarded TO SIR Ntiifam
Higgins Programme for To-day.
The National Academy of Science
opened it's annual session with a business
meeting at the National Museum yester-
dav morning. Prominent scientists from
every part of the United States were
present and will remain during the ses-
sions of the academy which will probably
conclude tomorrow.
The morning was given over to the
consideration of business of an executive
nature Prof. Asaph Hall, Of Harvard
University the Vice President of the
Academy, presided. The former Presi-
dent DIR. Walcott Gibbs, of Newport. f.
l. resigned that position at the last an
nual meeting of the Academy on account
of i'll health. His successor will be chosen
at an election this morning at IL o'clock.
A foreign secretary will also be chosen
to fill the vacancy which will be caused
by the expiration of the term of office of
Prof Alexander Agassiz, of Cambridge,
Mass. Applications for membership will
then be considered
At the meeting yesterday morning con-
siderable routine business was disposed
of The Henry Draper medal was award
ed to Sir William Higgins, of London, for
his Investigations on the subject of
Economical physics. The Draper medal
is provided from the Henry Draper fund
and is awarded by the National Academy
of Science from time to time to such per-
sons as may have made new discoveries
or otherwise conducted meritorious re-
search in the scientific world
When the matter of election of foreign
| associates came up the following were
proposed and unanimously elected to
|
| Cornu, Jansen, and Loewy. of Paris;
Prof KohIrausch, of Berlin: Prof. II.
| Kronecker, of Bonn, and Sir Archibald
| Geikie of London. This makes total of
twenty eight foreign associates of the
| Academy at the present time.
The afternoon session yesterday was
| open to the public and a large number
! of persons. not members of the Academy,
assembled in the lecture room al the Ma
! tional Museum to listen to the reading
| and discussion of the various papers on
| the programme.
\ paper on The Use of Formulae in
! Demonstrating the Relations OF the Life
| History of an Individual to the Evolution
/ of its Group was read by Alpheus Hyatt,
| the Curator of the Boston Society of Nat
ural History. He illustrated his paper
| with several charts. General discussion
|
were: Artificial Parthenogenesis and it's
| Relation to Normal Fertilization by f..
| B. Wilson, of Columbia University; Sim
/ ultaneous Volumetric and Electric Gradu-
alton of the Condensation Tube" by Carl
/ Barus. OF Providence. X. l.
! The papers which are on the programme
and which Will be read probably at the
| session this afternoon are: The China
tology of the Isthmus of Panama" by
Henry L. Abbot, T. S. A; THE Effects
of Secular Cooling and Meteoric Dust on
the Length of the Terrestrial Day by r.
5. Woodward, of Columbia University
New Nork City. and the exposition of a
/ table of results of an experimental en-
qufry regarding the nutritive action of
/ alcohol. prepared by Prof W. o. Atwater
OF Middleton, Conn, and which win be
presented by j. S. Billings
The members of the National Academy
OF Sciences. who reside in Washington
VIII be the hosts at banquet at Rausch-
er $ tomorrow night. The guests of honor
VIII be the visiting members Of the Acad-
emy and a large number of people promi-
nent IN Washington official life will at
tend Tonight at Sis o'clock the Wash
inGton Academy of Science will honor the
National Academy with a lecture at the
hall of the School of Comparative Juris-
prudence ana Diplomacy of Columbian n
! University. The lecture. which is entitled
"A New Law OF Evolution, will be de-
ivered by Alpheus Hyatt, of Boston,
The members of the National Academy
OF Science who are attending the sessions
I are as IolIO%S. Cleveland A Able. Wash
ington; Henry L. Abbot, L. S. A, New
York; Alexander Agassiz, Cambridge
/ Mass: j. Asaph Allen, Curator of the
American Museum. New York; Charles E.
Beecher. of Yale University, New Haven
Conn; Franz Boas, of Columbia Uni
Yersity, New York; Lewis Boss Albany
y. Y; Henry P. Bowditch. Of Jamaica
; Plain. Mass: William H. Brewer, Di
rector Of the Harvard Medical School
Cambridge. Mass; Charles F. Chandler
New York: William n. Ball. Washing
ton; w G. Farlow. of Harvard Univer
sity, Cambridge, Mass; Theodore N. Gill
Washington; Arnold Hague, Unite,
States Geographical Survey, Washington
/ Asaph Hall. Harvard University. Cam
bridge Mass; George II w. Hill, Wes
Nyack, n. Y; Alpheus Hyatt Curato
l of the Boston Society of Natural History
Samuel p. Langley, Washington: Thoma
= | G. Mendenhali, President of the Worces
ter Polytechnic Institute of Worcester
Mass; Charles 8. Mlnot. Harvard Medica
School. Cambridge Mass; Edward W
Morley, AdeIbert College, Cleveland
/ Ohio; Edward 8. Morse, Peabody Acad
| emy OF Science, Salem. Mass; Simoi
! Newcomb. u. S. N, Washington; II. +
Osborn. Columbia University, New York
S. l.. Penfield Yale University, New Ha
r ven. Conn. John w Powell. Director o
2 ! Frederick w. Putnam, Director Peabod
I Museum, Cambridge, Mass; Ira Remser
I Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
5 Charles d. WalcOtt. Director Geological
: Survey, Washington, and Edmund b WI
! son, of Columbia University, New York.
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