Proceedings of the stated meeting held Thursday, October 20, 1920

✍ Scribed by R.B. Owens

• Book ID: 104122711
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1920
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 145 KB
• Volume: 190
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(20)90886-4

✦ Synopsis

Additions to membership since last report, 15. Reports of progress were presented by the Committee on Library, and the Committee on Science and the Arts. Mr. Coleman Sellers, Jr., Vice-President of the Institute, was recognized. He gave a brief account of the life and work of Dr. Joseph Priestley and presented to the Institute for its collections an air .pump once the property of Doctor Priestley.* On motion of Dr. A. S. Cushman, duly seconded, the thanks of the Institute were extended to Mr. Coleman Sellers, Jr., and Mr. Horace Wells Sellers, the donors. Doctor Hoadley was then recognized, and presented Mr. Edward Payson Bullard, Jr., of Bridgeport, Conn., to whom had recently been awarded the Howard N. Potts Medal for his Mult-Au-Matic machine. Doctor Hoadley said : * Mr. Sellers' remarks will appear in the next number of the JOURNAL.