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Appendix E: Officers and Members of the Council of the National Academy of Sciences, 1863-1963
Appendix E: Officers and Members of the Council of the National Academy of Sciences, 1863-1963
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APPENDIX Officers and Members of the Council E of the :\fational Academy of Sciences, 1863 1963 OFFlCERS1 OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 1863-1963 OFFICERS I PRESIDENTS 1863- 1867 Alexander Dallas Bache 1868- 1878 Joseph Henry 1879- 1882 William Barton Rogers 1883-1895 Othniel Charles Marsh 1895- 1900 Wolcott Gibbs 1901-1907 Alexander Agassiz 1907-1913 Ira Remsen 1 ~ 13- 1917 William Henry Welch 1917-1923 Charles Doolittle Walcott 1923-1927 Albert Abraham Michelson 1927-1931 Thomas Hunt Morgan 1 NOTE: Term of office changed from six to four years in 1918. 634 1931-1935 William Wallace Campbell 1935-1939 Frank Rattray Lillie 1939-1947 Frank Baldwin Jewett 1947-1950 Alfred Newton Richards 1950-1962 Detlev Wulf Bronk 1962-1969 Frederick Seitz II VICE PRESIDENTS 1863-1865 James Dwight Dana 1866-1868 Joseph Henry
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C Coffin 1880-1886 Alexander Agassiz 1887-1898 John Shaw Billings 1886-1895 Wolcott Gibbs 1898-1902 Charles Doolittle Walcott 1895-1901 Alexander Agassiz 1902-1911 Samuel Franklin Emmons 1901-1903 Ira Remsen 1911-1919 Whitman Cross 1903-1909 Simon Newcomb 1919-1924 Frederick Leslie Ransome 1909-1910 Alexander Agassiz 192~1928 George Kimball Burgess 1910-1921 George Ellery Hale 1928-1932 Joseph Sweetman Ames 1921-1934 Robert Andrews Millikan 1932-1940 Arthur Keith 1934-1936 Thomas Hunt Morgan 1940-1948 Jerome Clark Hunsaker 1936-1942 Lawrence Joseph Henderson 1948-1960 William Jacob Robbins 1942-1945 Walter Bradford Cannon 1960-1968 Lloyd Viel Berkner 1945-1950 Detlev Wulf Bronk 2Appointed in January 1962 to replace Howard Percy Robertson, deceased.
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Newberry John L LeConte Chairman, Class A Louis Agassiz Chairman, Class B Benjamin Peirce Chairman, Chass A Arnold Guyot3 Chairman, Class B Chairman, Class A4 Chairman, Class B Hubert A
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Meigs William D Whitney9 sThe Academy Constitution was amended in 1868 so that the Washington session was held thereafter in April, instead of January; members of the Council were elected at the April session each year ("Minutes of the Academy," August 26, 1868, p.
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Hilgard Asaph Hall Julius E Hilgard Clarence King Simon Newcomb Clarence King Fairman Rogers Spencer F
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Meigs Simon Newcomb Edward C Pickering Ira Remsen Edward C
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Hale Simon Newcomb Ira Remsen Othniel C Marsh Simon Newcomb Othniel C
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fir. Abbot was elected Home Secretary in April 1919 (NAS, Annual Report for 1919, p.
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Mansfield Clark Oswald Veblen loin 1927 the Academy Constitution was amended to include the Chairman of the National Research Council as a member of the Academy Council, provided he was a member of the Academy. Gano Dunn, as Chairman of the NRC was ex officio a member of the Council (NAS,Annual Report for 1927-28, p.
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Stakman 1953-1956 Hugh L Dryden, 2 ~ succeeded in 1955 by James Gilluly Edwin Bidwell Wilson 1956-1959 Isidor I
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