The regular monthly meeting of the Institute was called to order at eightfifteen by Mr. Nathan Hayward, the President.
He at once called upon the Secretary for a statement of the business of the evening.
The Secretary reported that the minutes of the January meeting of the Institute had been published in full in the Journal of the Institute for February, which number is now in the hands of the membership, and moved that the minutes as printed therein be approved.
The motion was seconded and unanimously adopted.
The Secretary stated that since the last report concerning membership, the following additions had been made: One Non-Resident Life Member; four Resident Members; seven Non-Resident Members; ten deaths.
The Secretary reported that the Board of Managers, upon recommendation of its Committee on Science and the Arts, had awarded a Franklin Medal to Sir James Hopwood Jeans of London, England, and one to Dr. Willis R. Whitney, Director of the Research Department of the General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y., and that.it was expected to present these medals in person to the two recipients of them at the Medal Day meeting of the Institute, to be held on the twentieth of next May. He stated that it was the practice of the Institute to elect to Honorary Membership those to whom Franklin Medals had been awarded and therefore requested that some member of the Institute present move the election of the two gentlemen named, to Honorary Membership. This motion was immediately offered and seconded and was unanimously adopted.
The Secretary announced at this time the President had to appoint two Institute committees, namely: The Committee on Library and the Committee on Meetings, and that he would read, at the request of the President, the personnel of the two committees:
Committee on Library