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that should have been published in advance and that the time could be much
more profitably spent in discussion.
The sense of the delegate meeting was that the new Council and officers
should draw up rather rigid regulations to achieve this end, as they deem best.
The actions of the delegates were adopted with the recommendation that
information concerning speakers be published before the Congress to save the
time used for introduction of speakers.
The “Brock” award, accepted at the delegate meeting, was approved by
unanimous consent.
The election of individuals to honorary membership in the International
Society was announced. There follows the nomination remarks of these indi
viduals.
Dr. Poivilliers: I am sure I shall express the feeling of all photogramme-
trists in expressing to Mr. Santoni all of our congratulations for his having
been declared an Honorary Member of our International Society of Photo-
grammetry. You are so well known, Mr. Santoni, that it would be absolutely
useless for me to state now all of your merits and all of your worth, which
have met with so much success.
I just want to say how very glad and sincerely happy I am to see you being
granted this Honorary Member award. Our lives have been more or less paral
lel. I didn’t quite serve as you did in the first World War. I was with the Artil
lery. You were not. We both kept on working on the same or similar problems.
We have also the slight difference that you always speak of air triangu
lation, always I insist of speaking on bridging; but I think that even if we have
these differences and we use different methods and metaphors, I always speak
of perspective rays, you always speak of solar periscope — we are, however,
devoting all of our effort and all of our time to the success of the same science.
So you have followed all of your life the same course with success, and
this success is why it is so natural that you should be granted this award now
and we are all so happy to see it.
In the field of plotting instruments, for example, you always kept up the
direct examination of photographs, together with a spatial materilization and
the mechanical correction of lens distortion.
In the field of restitution, you have also used some methods which are
followed now, not only by myself, but by a great number of photogramme-
trists. The decision which has just been taken to nominate you Honorary
Member of the International Society of Photogrammetry is certainly a reward
of a whole life concentrated to efforts, with great success, to the science of
photogrammetry and we wish to congratulate you, very sincerely, all of us.
Dr. Santoni: I feel extremely flattered by this manifestation of your
sympathy and your gratefulness for the long work which I have devoted to
photogrammetry.
I wish to thank Mr. Poivilliers particularly for having presented in such
very kind manner the honor being attributed to me now by the Society. I hope
to be able to go on working and devoting all of my efforts, together with all
other photogrammetrists, in order to insure always greater success in our work,
and together with this wish, I would like to thank the President in particular
to have enabled us to have this wonderful manifestation here.
Mr. Harry: I have the honor to recommend on behalf of the Presidents