Report of Proceedings - National Academy of SciencesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 |
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Academy of Sciences adopted amended annual meeting appointed approved April 18 astronomical award B. A. Gould Bache fund ballot Benjamin Apthorp Gould Biographical memoir BOWDITCH Cambridge Chairman CHANDLER CHARLES CHITTENDEN Clark committee Comstock Congress Conn constitution council Date of election Draper fund EDWARD Emmons foreign associates GEORGE GEORGE E Gibbs fund Gill Gould fund HAGUE HALE Harvard Medical School Haven held hereby HILGARD home secretary income Invested investigations Ira Remsen JAMES JOHN Joseph Henry Lawrence Smith fund Lewis Boss Mass Massachusetts members present membership Messrs MICHELSON MINOT MORLEY MORSE National Academy NEWCOMB NICHOLS nomination November NOYES Observatory Osborn PEIRCE Pennsylvania president Prof recommendation Scientific sessions Sept solar research treasurer TROWBRIDGE trust funds U. S. Geological Survey United United States Navy Universität votes WALCOTT Washington Watson fund WILLIAM Wolcott Gibbs WOODWARD Yale University Yerkes Observatory York City
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Page 18 - STATE OF NEW YORK,) County of New York,) ss. : On this day of , 1910, before me personally came to me known and...
Page 6 - States as may be designated, and the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any -Department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art, the actual expense of such investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports to be paid from appropriations which may be made for the purpose, but the Academy shall receive no compensation whatever for any services to the Government of the United States.
Page 5 - That the National Academy of Sciences shall consist of not more than fifty ordinary members, and the said corporation hereby constituted shall have power to make its own organization, including its constitution, by-laws, and rules and regulations; to fill all vacancies created by death, resignation, or otherwise; to provide for the election of foreign and domestic members, the division into classes, and all other matters needful or usual in such institution, and to report the same to Congress.
Page 5 - BA Gould, Massachusetts; Asa Gray, Massachusetts; A. Guyot, New Jersey; James Hall, New York; Joseph Henry, at large; JE Hilgard, at large, Illinois; Edward Hitchcock, Massachusetts; JS Hubbard, United States Naval Observatory, Connecticut; AA Humphreys, United States Army, Pennsylvania; JL Le Conte, United States Army, Pennsylvania; J. Leidy, Pennsylvania; JP Lesley, Pennsylvania; MF Longstreth, Pennsylvania; DH Mahan, United States Military Academy, Virginia; JS Newberry, Ohio; HA Newton, Connecticut;...
Page 23 - Barnard,1 at large; JG Barnard, United States Army, Massachusetts; WHC Bartlett, United States Military Academy, Missouri; UA Boyden, Massachusetts; Alexis Caswell, Rhode Island; William Chauvenet, Missouri; JHC Coffin, United States Naval Academy, Maine; JA Dahlgren, United States Navy, Pennsylvania; JD Dana, Connecticut; Charles H.
Page 18 - York and studied medicine, receiving the degree of doctor of medicine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1845.
Page 5 - Conte, United States Army, Pennsylvania ; J. Leidy, Pennsylvania ; JP Lesley, Pennsylvania ; MF Longstreth, Pennsylvania ; DH Mahan, United States Military Academy, Virginia; JS Newberry, Ohio; HA Newton, Connecticut; Benjamin Peirce, Massachusetts; John Rodgers, United States Navy, Indiana; Fairman Rogers, Pennsylvania; RE Rogers, Pennsylvania; WB Rogers, Massachusetts; LM...
Page 30 - The local authorities, on the adoption and purchase of a voting machine, may provide for the payment therefor in such manner as they may deem for the best interest of the locality...
Page 24 - That a committee of five members be appointed by the president to recommend to the academy such measures as may be necessary to the proper execution of the trust.
Page 5 - New York, Joseph Saxton, at large; Benjamin Silliman, Connecticut; Benjamin Silliman, junior, Connecticut; Theodore Strong, New Jersey; John Torrey, New York; JG Totten, United States Army, Connecticut; Joseph Winlock, United States Nautical Almanac, Kentucky; Jeffries Wyman, Massachusetts; JD Whitney, California; their associates and successors duly chosen, are hereby incorporated, constituted, and declared to be a body corporate, by the name of the National Academy of Sciences.