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Campbell, William W., elected vice-
president, viii

Cannon, Annie J. on starlight and its
message, xiii

Carson, Hampton L., presents portrait
of the late Joseph G. Rosengarten,
xi

Chalice of Antioch, v

Cheyney, Edward P., character and

ability of Queen Elizabeth, v
Clark, John M., the tree of knowledge,

most ancient known fossil forest, x
Climate, importance of field work in
study of, 64, vi

Conklin, Edwin G., modern aspects of
evolution, xii
Councillors elected, ix

Crowell, Bowman C., relation of the
white man to the tropics, vii

Curator elected, ix

Curtis, Heber D., infra-red flash and
coronal spectra of the eclipse of
January 24, 1925, vii

D

Daly, Reginald A., ultimate causes of
volcanism, relation to earth's interior
and formation of mountain ranges,
283, xi

Davis, Bradley M., the segregation of
oenothera nanella-brevistylus from
crosses with nanella and with lamar-
kiana, vi

Day, Arthur L., the proximate causes
of volcanic phenomena, xi
Dercum, Francis X., elected vice-
president, viii

Duponceau, souvenir of, presented, xi

E

East, Edward M., a new interpretation
of the behavior of self-sterile plants,
vi
Eclipse, January, 1925, infra-red flash
and coronal spectra, viii

Eclipse, total solar of 1926, Friday
evening lecture, viii

Electric nets, identical, in series, I, viii
Evolution, modern aspects of, xiii

F

Final conclusions on the evolution,
phylogeny and classification of the
Proboscidea, by Henry Fairfield Os-
born, 17, x

Finance Committee, report of, adopted,
vi

G

Goodspeed, Arthur W., elected secre-
tary, viii

resolution on death of I. Minis
Hays, xii

Grass rusts of South America, based on
the Hallway collections, 131, vi
Gravitation, some new experiments in,
36, viii

H

Harshberger, John W., on the Portu-
gese insectivorous plant, drosophyl-
lum lusitanicum, 51, vi

Haupt, Paul, Ulysses and Nimrod, x
Hays, I. Minis, resolution on death of,
xii

Hertlein, Leo G. and Cricmay, Colin

H., on the nomenclature and strati-
graphy of the marine tertiary of
Oregon and Washington, 224
History, colonial, neglected point of
view in, v

Hubble, Edwin H., resolution of non-
galactic nebulae, vii

I

Identical electrical networks in series,
I, vii

Igneous action and mountain building,
283, xi

Importance of field work in the study
of climates, 64, vi

Intra-thoracic movements, application
of x-ray exposures to, 89, vii
Ives, Herbert B., transmission of
photographs by telephone, iv

J

Jackson, A. V. Williams, doctrine of
Bolos in Manchaean eschatology, v
Jimson weeds, distribution of in South
America, vi

Johnson, Emory R., railroad consolida-
tion, possibilities and limitations, 78,

V

K

Kennelley, A. E., identical electrical
networks in series, I, vii
resolution offered by, ix

L

Lecture, Friday evening, by John A.
Miller, viii

Lewis, John F., elected councillor, ix
Lewis and Clark expedition, neglected
botanical results of, vi

Lindgren, Waldemar, volcanism from
standpoint of the geologist, xi
Logic and the relation of life to mecha-
nism, 95, iv

M

MacDougal, D. T., absorption and
exudation pressure of sap in plants,
102, vi

Manchaean eschatology, doctrine of
Bolos in, v

Mars: the opposition of 1924, vii
McPhedran, F. Maurice and Weyl,
Charles N., on automic synchroni-
zation of x-ray exposures, 89, vii

Members, admitted:

Andrews, Charles McL., iv
Arthur, Joseph C., vi
Blakeslee, Albert F., iv
Bowman, Isiah, vii
Cannon, Annie, xiii
Day, Charles, xiii
Mitchell, Howard, xiii
Montgomery, James A., xiii
Singer, Edgar Arthur, xi

Members, deceased:

Baldwin, James L., iv
Cadwalader, John, iv

Chandler, Charles Frederick, xii
Clarke, John Mason, xii
Clay, Albert T., xii
Darwin, Francis, xii

Farabee, William Curtis, xii
Fullerton, George S. iv
Geikie, Sir Archibald, iii
Gray, George, xii
Hayford, John F., iv
Hays, I. Minis, xii
Hillebrand, Wm. Francis, iii
Hilprecht, Herman V., xii
Lambert, Preston Albert, iii
Marshall, John, iii

Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin, iii
Merriman, Mansfield, xii
Patterson, Christopher Stuart, iii
Penrose, Charles Bingham, iii
Sampson, Alden, iii

Members, elected:

Alderman, Edwin A., ix
Cannon, Annie J., ix

Compton, Arthur Holly, ix
Day, Charles, ix

Gregory, William King, ix
Harkens, William Draper, ix
Jones, Lewis R., ix
Joslin, Elliot Proctor, ix
Lawsonk, Andrew Cowper, ix
McCurdy, George Grant, ix
Mitchell, Howard Hawks, ix
Montgomery, James Alan, ix
Rand, Edward Kennard, ix
Singer, Edgar Arthur, ix
Stebbins, Joel, ix
Mesohippus, new, mounted skeleton of,
55, x

Miller, John A., elected secretary, viii
Friday evening lecture, viii
Millikan, Robert A., new results
through extension of x-ray laws into
field of optics, vii
Minutes, i-xiii

Money, Charles R., the great chalice of
Antioch, v

Montgomery, James A., origin of
Phoenician alphabet, v

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Patagonia, Princeton University's ex-
pedition to, x

Penrose, Charles Bingham, resolution
on death of, iv

Phoenician alphabet, new light on
origin of, v

Photographs, transmission of by tele-
phone, iv

Plants, pressures of sap in, 102, vi
Plants, self-sterile, interpretation of
behavior of, vi

Portugese insectivorous plants, notes
on, vi

Prehistoric terminology, 83, x
President, elected, viii

Price, Eli Kirk, elected treasurer, ix
Proboscidea, résumé of researches on,
17, x

Protoplasm, colloidal nature of, iv

Q

Queen Elizabeth, character and ability
of, v

R

Railroad consolidation, possibilities and
limitations, 78, v

Relation of mountain-building to ig-
neous action, 283, xi

Rosengarten, Joseph G., presentation
of portrait of, xi

S

Sap in plants, absorption and exuda-
tion pressures of, 102, vi
Scott, Wm. B., report on the Princeton
University expeditions to Patagonia,

X

Secretaries elected, viii

Siefritz, Wm., on colloidal nature of
protoplasm, iv

Sinclair, Wm. J., mounted skeleton of a
new mesohippus from the protoceras
beds, 55, x

Singer, Edgar A., logic and the relation
of life to mechanism, 95, iv
Site, report of committee on, iv
Skeleton of a new mesohippus, 55, x
Sliper, Earl C., Mars: the opposition
of 1924, vii

Some new experiments in gravitation,
36, viii.

Smith, Edgar Fahs, the soluble sodium
tungstates, viii

Smith, Philip S., explorations in north-
ern Alaska, x

Starlight and its message, xiii
Summary of the nomenclature and
stratigraphy of the marine tertiary
of Oregon and Washington, 224
Sun, the electrical output of, vii
Symposium, on Volcanism, xi

Arthur L. Day, the proximate

causes of volcanic phenomena, xi
Allen, Eugene T., the relation of
chemical energy to volcanism,
xi
Lindgren Waldemar, volcanism
from standpoint of the geologist,

xi

Daly, Reginald A., ultimate causes
of volcanism as connected with
the earth's interior condition
and formation of mountain
ranges, 283, xi

T

Terminology, prehistoric, 83, x
Thermometer, differential for low tem-
peratures, viii

Treasurer elected, ix

Tree of knowledge, most ancient fossil
forest, x

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