The Washington times., 1915-04-18
National Academy OF
Sciences Meets Here
Session Opening Tomorrow Afternoon in National
Museum Will End Wednesday, Varied Program
Has Been Provided and Public Is Invited.

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J.. Britton. director of the New York
Botanical Garden; pictures on Pre-
historic lottery from the Mimbres Val
tons to 1hose of Casas Grandes," by 4
J. Walter Fewkes. of this city: 'In-
heritance o. Temperament and Inherit
Ghnr,os Snce of nngson Nnn,,ngto2s ] chorea, by
Biological Laboratory of Cold Spring
harbor, Long island;
p. m. ANNUAL dinner at the Hotel
Raleigh for mambers and guests only.
At this time the Draper Gold Medal will
be presented.
Wednesday. The morning is given up
to election of new members and other
afternoon there will be two stereopticon
! lectures in the auditorium Of the
museum as follows! 2:45 p. m. The
Fur Seal Herd of the Pribilof Islands,"
by Prof George II. E'arker, Of Harvard
University. Prof. Parker is the official
representative of the academy upon the
| special commission appointed by the
and report upon the AlsSkan fur seals
during the summer of 1114.
100 pm. Second William E!lery Hale
sspPe On by 9s Prc rScms ch2dwdsr 2d tss
Chamberlin. of the University CT Chica--
go. This closes the public sessions OF
| the Academy.
The National Academy of Sciences,
founded in 1868. has included n major
| ity of the most distinguished Aperican
| men of science from that day 10 this.
According to Joseph Henry's. dictum.
from which there has never been any
serious departure. the National Aead-
1 erny is exclusively composed or men
| distinguished for original research--who
have earned the distinction by actual
discoveries enlarging the field Of hu-
! man knowledge"
! Its IncOrpOrators Distinguished.
The incorporators include Louis Agas-
! siZ. Alexander Dallas Bache. James
Dwight Dana. Wolcott Gibbs, benjamin
| Apthorp Gould, Asa Gray. Arnold Guyot,
Joseph Henry, John Lawrence lie Conte.
Joseph Leidy. Hubert Anson Newton.
! Fairman Rogers. Lewis Morris Ruther-
furd, Benjamin Silliman. John Torrey.
and other distinguished men OF the
period.
Other deceased members include
Alexander Agassiz. William Ferrel. John,
ley. spencer. Fullerton Baird, Simon
Newcomb. Silar Weir Mitchell, Henry
Augustus Rowland Francis Amssa
Malker' lS' ,.,,,,h Charles ,,,,; Augustus YoTns.
Henry Draper. Othniel Charles Marsh.
James Edward keeler, Josiah Willard
Gibbs. Lewis Boss. Josiah Parsons
Cooke. Edward Drinker Cope, Charles
Otis Whitman. Charles Sedg gwick Minot.
James Hall. William Keith Brooks.
Theodore Gill. Clarence King, and many
others.
There are l35 active members, compris-
Il ing the most distinguished investiga-
tors in every department of science.
The geographical distribution of MEM
states. corresponds closely with the
educational and scientific facilities of
different sections Of the country.
Officers of the Academy.
The officers Of the National Academy
/ of Sciences are: President William II.
WclCh, Johns Hopkins Medical School.
Baltimore vice president Charles d.
Malcott. Smithsonsian Institute, Wash
, inSton; home secretary, Arthur L. Day.
! Seophysical laboratory. Washington:
foreign secretary, George L. Hale, solar
observatory office, Pasadena. cal; treas
urer, Whitman Cross. United States
! geological Survey, Washington; council.
School. New Haven, Conn; +. 6. Conk-
lin. Princeton University. Princeton: w.
T. Councilman, Harvard Medical School.
Boston; y. A. Noyes, Massachusetts In
, stitute of Technology. Boston; L. y.
! Wilson. Columbia University, New York; !;
II. S. Woodward, Carnegie Institution.
: Wa shington.
r OF the 1875 active members of the Ma
tional Academy, Washing ton has tNen-
: ty. distributed as follows: Cleveland
5 Abbc, Weather Bureau; George e.
e Graham Bell; +. w. Clarke. Geological
Survey; Whitman Cross, Geological
4 Survey. William II. Dali. Snri. .sonan
S institution; Arthur L. Day, Gee physical
Laboratory, Carnegie Institution: Jesse
= W. Fcwkes. Bureau of Ethno,ogy
n Grove *. Gilbert. Geological Survey
2 Arnold Hague, Geological Survey; Will
| lam +. IIilebrand, Bureau of Standards:
3 William H. Holmes. National Museum
= Joseph p. Iddings, Geological Survey
-IC. Hart Merriam. Frederick l. Par1
, sons. Geological Survey; Edward III
9 Rosa Bureau of Standards; Erwin Fl
Smith, Bureau of Plant Industry
v Charles d. Walcott, Smithsonian Instt
tuition: Dav1l NsEc Geological Survey
3 and r. S. Woodward president of th4
Carncgic Institution.