X MINUTES. 



tronomer, Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, Cal. (see p. 513), 

 which was discussed by Prof. E. W. Brown. 



" Italy in the Triple Alliance," by William Roscoe Thayer, 

 Litt.D., L.H.D., LL.D., Cambridge, Mass. 



" Ballistic Experiments by a New ( ?) Method," by Arthur 

 Gordon Webster, Sc.D., LL.D., Professor of Physics, Clark 

 University, Worcester, and Mildred Allen. 



" Some Considerations on the Ballistics of a Gun of Seventy- 

 five Miles Range," by Arthur Gordon Webster, Sc.D., LL.D., 

 Professor of Physics, Clark University, Worcester, Mass. 



" The Relation of Deposits of Iron and Coal to the Great War," 

 by William H. Hobbs, Ph.D., Sc.D., Professor of Geology, 

 University of Michigan. 



" The Peculiar Geographical Features of Northwestern France 

 and their Bearing on the War," by William Morris Davis, 

 Sc.D., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Geology, Harvard Uni- 

 versity. 



"Rig-Veda Repetitions," by Maurice Bloomfield, Ph.D., LL.D., 

 Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology, Johns 

 Hopkins University. 



Afternoon Session, 2 o'clock. 

 William B. Scott, Sc.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair. 

 The following papers were read : 



"The Babylonian Origin of the Jewish Method of Slaughter," 

 by Paul Haupt, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Semitic Lan- 

 guages, Johns Hopkins University. 



" Soldiers' and Sailors' Insurance," by Samuel IMcCune Lind- 

 say, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Social Legislation, Colum- 

 bia University, New York. (See page 632.) 

 Symposium on Food Problems in Relation to the War — 



" Physiological Effects of Prolonged Reduced Diet on Twenty- 

 five Men," by Francis G. Benedict, Ph.D., Sc.D., Director of 

 the Nutrition Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington. (See p. 479.) 



" Food Conservation from the Standpoint of the Chemistry of 

 Nutrition," by Henry C. Sherman, Ph.D., Professor of Food 



