CONTENTS. 



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Officers for the year 1917 in 



List of Present and Former Trustees iv 



Associates of the Institution v 



Organization, Plan and Scope ix 



Articles of Incorporation x-xii 



By-Laws of the Institution xin-xvi 



Minutes of the Sixteenth Meeting of the Board of Trustees 1-4 



Report of the President of the Institution 5-35 



Bibliography of publications relating to work^of investigators, associates, and 



collaborators 36-46 



Report of the Executive Committee 47-56 



Report of the Auditor 50 



Financial Statement 51-56 



Reports on Investigations and Projects: 



Department of Botanical Research 5&-98 



Department of Embryology 99-109 



Department of Experimental Evolution 111-132 



Geophysical Laboratory 133-150 



Department of Historical Research 151-159 



Department of Marine Biology 161-189 



Department of Meridian Astrometry 191-197 



Mount Wilson Solar Observatory 199-235 



Nutrition Laboratory 237-248 



Department of Terrestrial Magnetism 249-284 



Other Investigations: 

 Archeologj^: 



Morley, Sylvanus G 285-289 



BibUography: 



Garrison, Fielding H 289-290 



Biology: 



Morgan, T. H 290-291 



Chemistry : 



Davis, Paul B 292-293 



Morse, H. N 293-294 



Noyes, Arthur A 294-295 



Remsen, Ira 295-298 



Richards, Theodore W 298-301 



Sherman, H. C 301-302 



Smith, Edgar F 302 



Ecology: 



Clements, F. E 303-306 



Geologj': 



ChamberUn, T. C 307-319 



Vaughan, T. Wayland 319 



Historj' : 



Andrews, Charles M 320 



Osgood, Herbert L 320 



VII 



