Proceedings of the Stated Meeting held Wednesday, April 15, 1914
โ Scribed by R.B. Owens
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1914
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 49 KB
- Volume
- 177
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Additions to membership since last report, 2. The Chairman announced that the first business of the meeting would be the presentation of the Elliott Cresson Medal, and recognized Mr. Benjamin Franklin, who introduced Mr. Francis Hodgkinson, of Swarthmore, Penna., to whom had been awarded this medal
Franklin Institute in relation to the Boyden Premium, have examined a competitive memoir from a person under the pseudonym of "Massis." We find that the method suggested in this memoir might be made competent to determine the relative velocities of luminous rays in air, but is not competent to dete
who presented a communication on " The Earth, a Great Magnet." The speaker gave the chief facts and latest results pertaining to the earth's magnetism, based largely upon the general magnetic survey of the earth, begun by the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution in 1904 a
Additions to membership, 4-Mr. George R. Henderson, chairman of the Committee on Science and the Arts, introduced Mr. Arthur Atwater Kent, of Rosemont, Pa., and Mr. Elmer A. Sperry, of New York City, who had been recommended to the Board of City Trusts of ~Philadelphia for the award of the John Scot
Additions to membership since last report, IO. The standing committees of the year I914-I5 were announced. Following the meeting of the Institute for the transaction of this business, a joint meeting was held with the Illuminating Engineering Society. Dr. George A. Hoadley, chairman of the Philadel