Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 55

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences., 1920
 

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Page 531 - Librarian, all of whom shall be elected by ballot at the Annual Meeting, and shall hold their respective offices for one year, and until others are duly chosen and installed.
Page 543 - ... to the author of any important discovery or useful improvement in light or in heat, which shall have been made and published by printing, or in any way made known to the public, in any part of the continent of America, or any of the American islands ; preference being always given to such discoveries as shall, in the opinion of the Academy, tend most to promote the good of mankind...
Page 462 - ... nostril a little nearer the tip of the snout than the eye; distance between the nostrils...
Page 437 - Head as long as broad or broader than long, rather strongly depressed; snout rounded, feebly projecting beyond the mouth, as long as the eye; can thus...
Page 411 - Hind limb moderately long, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaching the eye, the heels overlapping when the limbs are folded at right angles to the body...
Page 535 - Academy, all of which shall be in his official custody. He shall keep a faithful account of all receipts and expenditures, submit his accounts annually to the Auditing Committee, and render them at the expiration of his term of office, or whenever required to do so by the Academy or the Council. He shall keep separate accounts of the income of the Rumford Fund, and of all other special Funds, and of the appropriation thereof, and render them annually. His accounts shall always be open to the inspection...
Page 502 - He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1904.

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