Report of the National Academy of Sciences for the Year ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 - Science |
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Academy of Sciences Alexander Agassiz amended appointed approved April 18 Apthorp Gould Fund ASAPH ASAPH HALL Association of Academies astronomical Bache fund ballot Barnard Benjamin Apthorp Gould Biographical Memoir Boss BOWDITCH Cambridge Chairman CHANDLER CHARLES Chicago CHITTENDEN COMSTOCK Congress Conn constitution council Date of election EDWARD ELIAKIM H EMMONS foreign associates George E Gill HAGUE Hale HALL Haven held Henry Draper Henry Draper medal home secretary income investigation Ira Remsen islands J. J. SYLVESTER JAMES JOHN Joseph Henry LANGLEY LEWIS BOSS Mass Massachusetts meeting members present membership Messrs MICHELSON MITCHELL MORLEY National Academy NEWCOMB nomination number of votes Observatory Osborn PEIRCE PENFIELD Pennsylvania Philippine PICKERING president Prof Rogers scientific session Sept Simon Newcomb solar research THEODORE treasurer TROWBRIDGE trust United United States Navy WALCOTT Washington Watson WELCH WILLIAM Wolcott Gibbs WOODWARD Yale University York City
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Page 4 - 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 3 - 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 25 - ... the National Academy of Sciences. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, 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, bylaws, and rules and regulations...
Page 4 - Sciences, approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to remove the limitation of the number of ordinary members of said Academy as provided in said act.
Page 8 - Spectra from wave length 4,870 to 3,300, together with a discussion of the evolutional order of the stars, and the interpretation of their spectra, preceded by a short history of the Observatory and its work.
Page 13 - Formulae in Demonstrating the Relations of the Life History of an Individual to the Evolution of its Group. Alpheus Hyatt.' Artificial Parthenogenesis and its Relation to Normal Fertilization. EB Wilson. Simultaneous Volumetric and Electric Graduation of the Condensation Tube. Carl Barus. The Climatology of the Isthmus of Panama. Henry L. Abbot. The Effects of Secular Cooling and Meteoric Dust on the Length of the Terrestrial Day.
Page 5 - I have the honor to present herewith the annual report of the home secretary of the National Academy of Sciences for the year ending April 18, 1904.
Page 36 - The names of the members present at each daily meeting shall be recorded in the minutes, and the members present at any meeting shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. SEC. 3. Scientific meetings of the Academy, unless otherwise ordered by a majority of the members present, shall be open to the public; those for the transaction of business, closed.
Page 16 - Lavergne, undertaken by desire of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of the Institute of France...
Page 3 - 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.