212 REPORTS OF INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



derivatives unless tiiey result from the closing of a straight chain during the 

 process of hydrolysis. These results were published in the American Journal 

 of Physiology, as shown in the bibliography, pp. 45-52. 



Grant No. 4p/ ($4,000). — Work under this grant is progressing satisfac- 

 torily, but, as it is only a short time since its commencement, the results are 

 not yet ready to report. The work now under way includes hydrolyses of the 

 more important food-proteins of animal origin, and it is expected that these 

 will be completed within the year. 



PALEONTOLOGY. 



Wieland, G. R., Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Grant No. 491. 

 Taxonomic (and structural) study of American fossil cycads. (For 

 previous reports see Year Books Nos. 2, 3, 4, and 6.) $2,000. 



Following the preliminary studies of foreign collections mentioned in Year 

 Book No. 6, the present year has been taken up quite entirely in as yet in- 

 completed laboratory work on thin sections, and more lately in the prepara- 

 tion of manuscript for a volume on the taxonomy of the American fossil 

 cycads, complementary to that already published on structure. 



PHILOLOGY. 



Flugel, Ewald, Stanford University, California. Grants Nos. 329 and 460. 

 The preparation of a lexicon to the works of Chaucer. (For previous 

 reports see Year Books Nos. 3, 4, 5, and 6.) $11,000. 



Dr. Fliigel reports that the year's work has been devoted mainly to the 

 alphabetizing and arranging of accumulated slips, which have reached in 

 number about 1,120,000. This part of the work was done under Dr. Fliigel's 

 superintendence by Dr. H. Ram, Mr. Chester Rand, and Mr. Wood, of Stan- 

 ford University. Mr. H. Geer, as a volunteer assistant, has assorted the 

 slips of the "pronouns of address" (thou, thee, you, ye, etc.). 



Besides his work as alphabetizer. Dr. H. Ram has copied quotations from 

 Froissart and prepared word-indexes to several Middle English authors. 

 Prof. E. Einenkel, of Halle, has finished his share of the prepositions, in- 

 definites, etc., for the letter A, while Dr. Fliigel's own share was the super- 

 intendence of the work along all these lines and the final editing of the letter 

 A, which is now completed but for a last revision of the text. He hopes to 

 have the letters P> and C ready by the end of the winter. 



