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LITERATURE. 



Sommer, H. Oskar, Astolat, Camberley, Surrey, England. Grants Nos. 650 

 and 725. Completion for publication of researches on Arthurian Ro- 

 mances. (For previous reports see Year Books Nos. 5~9-) $5jOOO 



1. I have completed the second revise of volumes iv and v and provided 

 headlines and sidenotes. 



2. I have completed the final revise of volume iv. 



3. I have completed the final revise of volume v as far as I have received it. 



4. I have finished the first revise of the whole of volume vi. 



5. I have done the preliminary work for the index raisonne for volumes i 

 and II. 



6. Whatever leisure I have found I have devoted to the preparation of a 

 volume dealing with the fragments of the French original of the pseudo 

 Robert de Borron's trilogy from the Holt MS. and the MSS. Nos. 112, 342, 

 and 343 at the Bibliotheque Nationale. 



The following work remains to be done : 



1. The remainder of the final revise of volume v. 



2. The second and third revises of volume vi and the preparation of head- 

 lines and sidenotes. 



3. The passing through the press of the Livre d'Artus of the MS. No. 337 

 for volume vii. 



4. The compilation of the analytical index to the seven volumes. 



METEOROLOGY. 



Bjerknes, V., University of Christiania, Christiania, Norway. Grant No. 

 695. Preparation of a scientific zvork on the application of the methods 

 of hydrodynamics and thermodynamics to practical meteorology and 

 hydrography. (For previous reports see Year Books Nos. 5-9.) $1,200 



Of the work "Dynamic Meteorology and Hydrography" the first part, 

 "Statics," by V. Bjerknes and J. W. Sandstrom, has appeared. The second 

 part, "Kinematics," by V. Bjerknes, Th. Hesselberg, and O. Devik, is in press. 



NUTRITION. 



Osborne, T. B., Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Connecticut. 

 Grant No. 692. Comparative study of the more important vegetable 

 proteins. (For previous reports see Year Books Nos. 3-9.) $8,000 



During the past year the feeding experiments, referred to in our last 

 report as being undertaken in cooperation with Prof. Lafayette B. Mendel, 

 of Yale University, under a grant from the Adams Fund, have so increased 

 in scope and presented so many opportunities for fruitful research that it 

 has been found necessary to direct a large part of the work done under this 



