Evening star., 1901-04-16
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
NATIONAL BODY BEGINS ITS ANNUAL
MEETING TODAY.
Executive Session of Council-Report
on Draper Medal-TOpics Dis
cussed-Members Present.

The annual meeting of the National
| Academy Of Sciences was opened at the
| National Museum today. There was an
| executive session of the council at 10So
and business meeting Of the academy at
| IL o'clock. This last was called to order
by Mr. Asaph Hall, acting president. Mr.
Samuel p. Langey, secretary of the Smith
sonian Institution wecomed the academy
saying that it was hardly necessary that
he, as secretary of the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition. should give formal expression to
| the pleasure which all should feel in being
able to retugn to their old place Of meeting.
Mr.. Langley said he would make no pro-
longed remarks, but that, while speaking
In behalf of the institution, he would ask
leave to say how heartily he welcomed the
N embers back
ported that 1t should be conferred upon Sir
William Higgins of London for his re-
searches in astro-physfcs. The report was
adopted. The list of recipients OF this
medal are Samuel p Langley, Edward C..
Pickering, Henry A. Rowland H. G. Vogel
and James E. Keeler.
Seven foreign associate members of the
academy were elected, as follows: MN.
Bornet. Cornu; Jansen & Loewy of Paris,
Prof. Kohlrausch of Berlin. Prot. H. Kron-
ecker of Bonn. Sir Archibald Getkie Of
London. The whole number of foreign as
sociates is now twenty-eight
Pubic session.
A public session was opened at o'clock
this afternoon in the lecture hall Of the
National Museum. This session will con-
tinue till O'Clock. The academy will vote
for president tomorrow and the election Of
new members will be In order Thursday.
A public session will be held each after
noon till the reading and discussion of the
following papers shall have been concluded.
The Climatelogy of the Isthmus of Pana-
ma Henry l.. Abbot; The Effects of
Secular Cooling and Meteoric Dust on the
Length of the Terrestrial Day." r. s.
Woodward; The Use of Formulae in DEM
onstrating the Relations of the Life His
tory of an Individual to the Evolution Of It's
Group" Alpheus Hyatt; Artificial Par
thenogenesis and Its Relation to Normal
Fertilization" E B. Wilson; "Simultan-
eous Volumetric and Electric Graduation Of
the Condensation Tube" Carl Barus; TIA
BILE of Results of an Experimental INQUIRY
Regarding the Nutritive Action of AIco-
hol.' prepared by Prof. w. o. Atwater of
aiiddletown. Conn, presented by ]. s. Bill
ings.
Those Present.
The names of the members present fol-
low: Cleveland Able. Washington: Henry
l.. Abbott. L. s. A, New York; Alexander
Agassiz, Cambridge. Mass: j. Asaph Allen,
New York; Charles E. Reecher, New Ha-
ven; Franz Boas, New York; Lewis Boss,
Albany; Henry P. Bowditch. Jamaica
Plain. Mass: William H. Brew, New Ha-
ven: Seth C. Chandler, Cambridge Mass;
William H. Dali, Washington; ". G. Far
low. Cambridge, Mass: Theodore N Gill,
Washington; Arnold Hague. Washington:
Asaph Hall, Cambridge, Mass: George W.
Hill, West Nyack. n. Y; Alpheus Hyatt,
Boston, Mass: Samuel P. Langley. Wash
ingtoni Thomas c. Mendenhal1, Worcester,
Mass; Charles S. Minot Boston; Edward
W. Morley, Cleveland. Ohio Edward s.
Morse, Salem, Mass; Simon Newcomb. e.
S. N. Washington; H. F. Osborn New
York: S. L. Penfield, New Haven. Conn:
John W. Powell Washington; Frederick
W. Putnam, Cambridge. Mass: Ira Rem
sen, Baltimore; Charles D. Walcott, Wash
ingtoni Edmund B. Wilson New York