The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-18
PROF. AGAsslz PRESIDENT.
Chosen the Head of the National
Academy of Science


Alexander Agassiz, of Cambridge.
Mass. was yesterday morning elected
President of the National Academy Of
Science. which is holding its annual ses-
sion as the National Museum in this city
The office was rendered vacant one year
ago by the resignation of DIR. waicott
Gibos. OF Newport. r.. l. Prof. Agassiz
was Formerly foreign secretary of the
academy Prof. Ira Remsen, who was
home secretary. was elected to that po-
sition yesterday. The vacancy in the Of
flee of home secretary will DE filed this
morning
The attendance yesterday was some
what larger than that on Tuesday. The
hrst business was the election of officers.
This election included the selection of
additional members of the council, which
Is composed of all the officers of the
academy and six members The follow
ing members were elected to serve in
the council during the ensuing year: j q
Billings. New York; H. p. Bowditch.
Boston: G. ]. Brush. New Haven; s. p.
Langley. Washington; Arnold Hague.
Washington. and Simon Newcomb. U. 8.
N. Washington
News of the death of Henry A Row
land, OF Johns Hopkins University. a
member of the academy. was communi-
Gated TO the academy and occa stoned gen.
erai expressions of regret. Thomas c.
Mendenhali and s. p. Langley were ap-
pointed committee to attend the funer-
al, which win take place in Baltimore to-
day at noon. This is the first time that
a member OF the academy has died during
an annual session of that body.
communication was received from the
Engineers Society Of Western New York
inviting the members Of the academy to
make their headquarters at the rooms
OF the society when visiting the Pan
American Exposition.
Applications for membership will be
considered this morning.
The afternoon session was public and
was given oyer to the. reading and dis
cussion of papers by members Of the
academy.
Last night the members of the academy
were the guests of honor at a lecture
delivered by Prof. Alpheus Hyatt, of Bos-
ton. Mass. in the lecture hall of the
School of Comparative Jurisprudence and
Diplomacy of Columbian University. The
subject of Prof. Hyatt's lecture was "A
New Law of Evolution
Later in the evening the members of
the academy were received by Mrs.
Phoebe Hearst at her home. 400 New
Hampshire Avenue. The reception was
given in honor of Mrs. Nuttall, who has
recently returned to Washington from an
extended visit in Russia A large num-
Der of prominent Washington people were
present. The members of the academy
who attended were: Cleveland A At,be,
Washington; Henry L. Abbot, U. s. A..
New York; Alexander Agassiz, Cam
bridge, Mass; ]. Asaph Allen. Curator Of
the American Museum. New York;
Charles E. Beecher of Yale University,
lumbia University. New York: Lewis
Boss. Albany, n. Y; Henry p Bowditch.
Jamaica Plain, Mass; William II. Brew
er, Director of the Harvard Medical
School. Cambridge, Mass; Charles F.
Chandler, New York; William r. Ball,
Washington; w. G. FarIow, of Harvard
University. Cambridge, Mass; Theodore
n. Gill. Washington; Arnold Hague.
United States Geological Survey WASH
lngton: Asaph Hall. Harvard University,
Cambridge. Mass: George H. w. Hill.
rator of the Boston Society of Natural
Samuel p. Langley. Washing
ton; Thomas c. Mendenhall, President OF
the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Of
Worcester. Mass; Charles s. Minot Har-
Yard Medical School, Cambridge, Mass;
Edward W. Morley. Adelbert College,
Cleveland, Ohio; Edward s. Morse Pea
body Academy of Science Salem Mass:
Simon Newcomb. u s. n, Washington:
X. F. Osborn, Columbia University. New
York: 5. l.. Penfieid. Yale University.
New Haven. Conn; John w. Powell. Dr.
'ector of the Bureau of Ethnology. Wash
ngton. Frederick w. Putnam. Director
Museum. Cambridge. Mass; Ira
Remsen. Johns Hopkins University. Bal
imore: Charles d. Walcott. Director Geo
ogical Survey Washington: Edmund B.
Wilson. of Columbia University New
York: Carl Barus. Providence. r. l.. C. S.
Billings. New York: George ]. Brush,
New Haven: r. II. Chittenden, New Ha-
zen; Albert E. Nicholson. Chicago: w. H.
Eelch. Baltimore, and r. S. Woodward,
New York