Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-19
NEARLY FORTY PRESENT
News Of Agassiz Legacy Of $50, 600
Is Confirmed.
New Members Will Be Admitted
and Foreign Secretary Elected.
To Adjourn Thursday.

lie NdioHdf ACADEMY Oh SCieHCcS
opened its annual session this morning
at the Smithsonian Institution with a
meeting Of the council at 10 O'Clock.
| which was followed an hour later by a
business meeting Of the academy. II
was announced after the meeting, which
was behind closed doors, that word had
been received from the son Of the late
Prof. Alexander Agassiz confirming the
published report that Prof. AgassiE had
left the National Academy of Sciences a
legacy Of $4,000. The conditions of the
legacy have not yet been made known
to the academy. however
| The business this morning was largely
routine, consisting Of reading OF reports
from various committees. The academy
is made up Of the most distinguished
scientists in the country, and between
thirty-five and forty of the members were
Henry Henry l. "es ABBOTT Se Joseph s. Ames
George F. Becker, Franz Boas, J. s.
Billings. George j. Brush, Lewis Bose
William III. Brewer, F. w. Clarke, J. M
Clarke, Geo. c. Comstock. j. NJ. Coulter
Henry Grew, Whitman Gross, VIM. H
Dali. VIM. NJ. Davis, Samuel F. Emmons
Theodore N. Gill, Arnold Hague, George
e. Hale, William F. Hillebrand, William
III. Holmes. Waldemar Lindgren, c. Hart
Merriam q. s. Morse, Edward L. Mich
f. w. Putnam. Ira Remsen. Elihu Thorn
son. William Trelease. Charles d. Wal
colt, Arthur G. Webster, Henry l.. Vince
Ter, Robert 8. Woodward
Successor to Prof. Aeassix.
One of the important matters to come
up at the present session OF the academy
is the election of a successor to Prof.
Agassiz as foreign secretary of the acad-
envy. This election will take place to-
morrow morning. The academy also will
elect two members Of the council and
several new members Of the academy.
Under the constitution of the academy
1t is impossible to elect more than ten
new members at this time.
After the business session the scien.
lists went to luncheon in the National
during tomorrow and Thursday.
The first public session for the presen-
tation of scientific papers opened at 2
o'clock in the large hall of the National
Museum. These public sessions will be
held each afternoon and thirty-three
papers will be presented.
The program of papers is as follows:
1.-The 16-inch Metcalf Doublet," E. G.
Pickering; Solar Magnetism with
lantern slides). George E. Hale; ION
Some Visual and Photographic .Observa-
tions of Mars Qantern), George f. Hale:
1.-THE Distribution of Agave in the West
Indies 0antern). William Trelease; THE
Vascular Plate and Cotyledons of Gym
nosperms" Qanterh), John NJ. Coulter:
Some Crucial Experiments Demonstrat-
ing the Necessity of Accepting the One
fluid Theory in Electricity dantern),
F. r. Nipher; "A Probable Indirect Re-
lation' Between Solar Disturbances and
Terrestrial Temperatures nantern), W.
Tuning Forks" p. A.. Harrington;
THE Bureau of Standards. 0antern).
S. W. Stratton; 1.-The Determination of
Temperature Constants in Mineral For
of Gas Thermometer and the Boiling
Points of Water and Napthalene," j. NJ
Crafts: The Temperature Coefhcient of
Osmotie Pressure" H. N. Morse; Hy-
Abbott: THE Development of Olenellus, -
Qantern), C. d. Walcott; "A New De-
velopment of Mudlump Activity at the
Mouth Of the mississippi River" E. w.
Hilgard; THE Correlation of the Pleis-
tocene of Europe and North America
Covering of the Trachodont Dinosaurs
H. f. Osborn: Biographical Memoir of
Joseph Leidy," III. F. Osborn.
Report of Progress in the Study of the
Scott: THE Austral Devonian" 0antern),
IJ. NJ. Clarke: boundaries Following
from the Theory of Isostasy." w. M. Da-
Wis: Composition OF American River
w dtclS tidulcIuJs n. D. lIOlc, "A IIc-
liminary Study of Chemical Denudation,"
F. w. Clarke: "Denudation Evidence in
Relation to the Age of Earth" George
F. Becker; 1.-The Influence of Environ
ment Upon Human Types" Franz Boas
IA New Method for the Study OF
Elastic Hysteresis. A. G. Webster:
The Ionization Relations of Poly-ionic
Characteristics and Relations of the
Apodales," Theodore Gill: Recent Dis
coveries OF the Early History Of the
Common EEL Theodore Gill; Some
Studies in Molecular Rearrangement,"
Ira Remsen; THE Number of Double
Stars as a Function of the Separation
OF the Component" Qantern). r.. G. Ait
KEN "On the Spectrum of Mars as Pho
| tographed with High Dispersion w.
w. Campbell and Sebastian Albrecht
| Second Catalogue of Spectroscopic
Binary Stars" Oantern), w. w. Camp
bell.