Annual Meeting of Aero Society

The annual meeting of the Harvard Aeronautical Society will be held in the Assembly Room of the Union this evening at 7.30 o'clock. All members of the University, whether or not members of the society, are invited to attend. The officers for the coming year will be elected and plans for experiments will be discussed. Professor A. L. Rotch h.'91, president of the society, A. D. Claflin '86, manager of the Harvard-Boston Aviation Meet, and A. A. Merrill will speak.

As the assets of the society are considerably larger than last year, extensive plans are being made. A permanent hangar, which will hold two machines, and an artificial slope will be built at Squantum, where most of the experimental work will be carried on. The society's glider will be equipped with effective controls so that it can be used for free flights from an elevation. It is also planned to remodel the Roe triplane and to use in this the 30 horsepower engine which Mr. Roe used at the Squantum meet. If enough money is available, a different system of control will be placed on the Harvard I and a Roe engine will be installed, as the engine which was used last year was too heavy for its power.

The plan of a course of lectures to be given by Professors I. N. Hollis h.'99, and R. W. Willson '73 and others will be announced. Some of these lectures will be illustrated and they will deal with both the popular and scientific side of aeronautics. With a series of lectures and with the assets in the way of machines and grounds which it possesses, the society hopes to be able to maintain the position which it has attained among the aeronautical clubs of the country.