MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, HELD AT THE FACULTY CLUB, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, SUNDAY, MAY 20, 1906, AT 3:30 P. M. The President LEUSCHNER presided. A quorum was present. minutes of the last meeting were approved. The following members were duly elected. ELECTION. Professor HEBER D. CURTIS, Casilla 1219, Santiago, Chile. Mr. J. WALTER MILES, Irwin, Pennsylvania. Dr. J. H. MOORE, Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, California. The secretary reported that the personal property of the society, including its entire library, pictures, furniture and archives, contained in its rooms in the California Academy of Sciences Building, 819 Market street, was totally destroyed by the conflagration of April 18th, 1906. The funds of the society, consisting of investments aggregating $15,959,54, are all intact, as well as a supply of the Publications, stored at the Lick Observatory. The following resolutions were adopted: Resolved, that the Publications of the society be continued as usual. Resolved, that the Publication No. 107 which was in press at the time of the fire, be reprinted. Resolved, that the Publication Committee be allowed to expend $700 for Publications (including No. 107,) to the end of December, 1906. Resolved that the Finance Committee be instructed to provide the funds necessary to meet the obligations of the society, by drawing upon such funds as they may deem advisable. Resolved that the President and Library Committee be authorized to prepare a circular regarding the loss of the society's library, to be sent to such institutions and persons as they may select. Resolved, that a meeting of the society be held at the Lick Observatory on the last Saturday of September. Resolved, that the invitation extended to the society by the President of the University of California, to make the Students' Observatory at Berkeley, the temporary headquarters of the library of the society, be accepted, and the grateful thanks of the Board of Directors be returned to President WHEELER for his courteous offer. Adjourned. MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE The society was called to order by President LEUSCHNER, who introduced as lecturers of the evening, Professor F. OMORI of the Imperial University of Tokio, Japan, who presented a paper on Observations of Distant Earthquakes, and Professor A. C. LAWSON, of the University of California, who spoke more particularly of the California Earthquake of April 18th, 1906. After the conclusion of the addresses, the observatory buildings were opened for the inspection of members and visitors. OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. Mr. A. O. Leuschner. Mr. R. G. Aitken Mr. F. R. Ziel President First Vice-President .Second Vice-President Third Vice-President Secretaries Treasurer Board of Directors-Messrs. Aitken, Babcock, Burckhalter, Campbell, NOTICE. The attention of new members is called to Article VIII of the ByLaws, which provides that the annual subscription, paid on election, covers the calendar year only. Subsequent annual payments are due on January 1st of each succeeding calendar year. This rule is necessary in order to make our book keeping as simple as possible. Dues sent by mail should be directed to Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 819 Market Street, San Francisco. It is intended that each member of the Society shall receive a copy of each one of the Publications for the year in which he was elected to membership and for all subsequent years. If there have been (unfortunately) any omissions in this matter, it is requested that the Secretaries be at once notified, in order that the missing numbers may be supplied. Members are requested to preserve the copies of the Publications of the Society as sent to them. Once each year a titlepage and contents of the preceding numbers will also be sent to the members, who can then bind the numbers together into a volume. Complete volumes for past years will also be supplied, to members only, so far as the stock in hand is sufficient, on the payment of two dollars per volume to either of the Secretaries. Any non-resident member within the United States can obtain books from the Society's library by sending his library card with ten cents in stamps to the Secretary A. S. P., 819 Market Street, San Francisco, who will return the book and the card. The Committee on Publication desires to say that the order in which papers are printed in the Publications is decided simply by convenience. In a general way, those papers are printed first which are earliest accepted for publication. Papers intended to be printed in a given number of the Publications should be in the hands of the Committee not later than the 20th of the month preceding date of publication. It is not possible to send proof sheets of papers to be printed to authors whose residence is not within the United States. The responsibility for the views expressed in the papers printed, and for the form of their expression, rests with the writers, and is not assumed by the Society itself. The titles of papers for reading should be communictaed to either of the Secretaries as early as possible, as well as any changes in addresses. The Secretary in San Francisco will send to any member of the Society suitable stationery, stamped with the seal of the Society, at cost price, as follows: a block of letter paper, 40 cents; of note paper, 25 cents; a package of envelopes, 25 cents. These prices include postage, and should be remitted by money-order or in U. S. postage stamps. The sendings are at the risk of the member. Those members who propose to attend the meetings at Mount Hamilton during the summer should communicate with "The Secretary Astronomical Society of the Pacific" at the rooms of the Society, 819 Market Street, San Francisco, in order that arrangements may be made for transportation, lodging, etc. PUBLICATIONS ISSUED BI-MONTHLY. (February, April, June, August, October, December.) CONTENTS. Page Leuschner, A. O.-A Statement by the President of the 191 Notice to Members and Correspondents. 192 Omori, F.-Observations of Distant Earthquakes... 193 Struve, H.-Eclipses of the Satellites of Saturn, Occurring in the Year 1906... 203 McNeill, M.-Planetary Phenomena for July and August, 1906 209 Notes from Pacific Coast Observatories. 212 General Notes. 230 Minutes of Special Meeting of the Board of Directors, May 20, 1906.... 233 Minutes of Meeting of the Society, June 9, 1906 233 Officers of the Society... 234 |