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Abstract of Report.-The acid already American amount animals apparatus assistant atmosphere Biological Board of Trustees body Bureau C. B. Davenport Cambrian Carnegie Institution carried charge coelostat Cold Spring Harbor collected collision completed computed coöperation D. C. Grant determined direction director division earth economic electric Executive Committee Experimental Evolution experiments feet field gaseous geological growth heat Hugo de Vries hydrosphere hypothesis important instrument investigation Journal June Lewis Boss magnetic mass material measurement meteorites methods Mount Wilson mountain nebulæ North nucleus observations Observatory obtained orbits organization origin period photographs planetesimals plants plates portion possible prepared present probably Prof Professor progress publication relation rock scientific Simon Newcomb species stars station stellar surface survey telescope temperature theory tion Tortugas tumulus University variable stars variation velocity VENT Washington Wawepex Society Yerkes Observatory
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Page 12 - An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia", approved March 3, 1901, as amended (DC Code, 1940 edition, title 1, sec.
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Page 12 - Sec. 8. That Congress may from time to time alter, repeal, or modify this Act of incorporation, but no contract or individual right made or acquired shall thereby be divested or impaired.
Page 13 - MEETINGS. 1. The annual meeting of the Board of Trustees shall be held in the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on the first Friday following the second Thursday of December in each year.
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Page 11 - National Education Association of the United States;" and that the Board of Trustees of the corporation hereby incorporated shall thereupon, if the charter granted by this act be accepted, receive, take over, and enter into possession, custody, and management of all property, real and personal, of the corporation heretofore known as the National Educational Association, incorporated as aforesaid, under the Revised Statutes of the...
Page 11 - Carnegie, and any property which has been or may be transferred to them or such corporation by Andrew Carnegie or by any other person, persons, or corporation, and to invest any sums or amounts from time to time in such securities and in such form and manner as are permitted to trustees or to charitable or literary corporations for investment, according to the laws of the States of New York, Pennsylvania, or Massachusetts, or in such securities as...
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Page 13 - OFFICERS OF THE BOARD. 1. The officers of the Board shall be a Chairman of the Board, a ViceChairman, and a Secretary, who shall be elected by the Trustees, from the members of the Board, by ballot to serve for a term of three years. All vacancies shall be filled by the Board for the unexpired term; provided, however, that the Executive Committee shall have power to fill a vacancy in the office of Secretary to serve until the next meeting of the Board of Trustees. 2. The Chairman shall preside at...
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