Terms expire 1898.

DR. ALEXANDER MACFARLANE, W. F. C. HASSON,
GANO S. DUNN,

TREASURER:

GEORGE A. HAMILTON,

57 Bethune Street, New York.

HERBERT LAWS WEBB.

SECRETARY:
RALPH W. POPE,

26 Cortlandt St., New York.

Committee on Papers and Meetings.

HERBERT LAWS WEBB, Chairman. DR. FRANCIS B. CROCKER, T. C. MARTIN,

A. E. KENNELLY,

DR. M. I. PUPIN.

NELSON W. PERRY.

CONTENTS.

FRONTISPIECE.-Portrait of Francis B. Crocker, Eleventh President of the

Institute.-1897-1898.

REGULAR MEeting, New YORK, JANUARY 20, 1897.

Associate Members Elected, January 20, 1897..

Electrically Driven Vehicles.—(A Topical Discussion.) Discussion

at New York by Andrew L. Riker, Fred. Reckenzaun, Mr.

Adams, Louis Duncan, H. B. Coho, W. R. C. Corson, Joseph

Sachs, Ralph W. Pope, Henry Van Hoevenbergh, and Chas. E.

Duryea...

Associate Members Elected and Transferred, February 17, 1897.

REGULAR MEETING, NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 17, 1898.

CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 28, 1898.

Conductivity of Incandescent Carbon Filaments and of the space

surrounding them.-(Illustrated.) By John W. Howell, of

Newark, N. J...

Discussion at New York, by Louis Duncan, A. E. Kennelly,

E. A. Colby, Samuel Sheldon, Douglass Burnett, Townsend

Wolcott and Charles Wirt..

Communication by Wilbur M. Stine..

REGULAR MEEting, March 24, 1897.

Council Nominees for Election

Associate Members Elected, March 24, 1897..

The Influence of Heat Treatment upon the Magnetic Properties

of Steel and Iron.-(Illustrated.) By K. E. Guthe, of Ann

Arbor, Mich...

Discussion by Henry S. Carhart, Paul A. N. Winand, M. I.
Pupin and Nelson W. Perry

Communication by Elihu Thomson, and J. Stanford Brown..

Report of Committee on Units and Standards on a Standard of

Luminous Intensity......

REGULAR MEETING at NEW YORK AND CHICAGO, APRIL 21, 1897.

Associate Members Elected, April 28, 1897....

Associate Members Transferred....

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The Synchronograph.-(Illustrated.) By Albert Cushing Crehore,

of Hanover, N. H., and George Owen Squier, of Fort Monroe,

Va.....

Discussion at Chicago, by Frederick Bedell, W. M. Stine,

A. V. Abbott, W. W. Ryder, C. V. Kerr, F. E. Drake, W. D.
Ball and Louis Privat..

Discussion at New York, May 18, 1897, by Francis W. Jones,

A. S. Kennelly, P. B. Delany, Geo. O. Squier, and Albert C.

Crehore.

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