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Dr. R. L. Latterell, Dr. M. M. Margulies, Dr. K. Mitrakos, L. Price, 

 and Dr. W. A. Shropshire. Papers presented at the meetings included 

 "Light-induced Biochemical Changes in Phycomyces Sporangio- 

 phores," by Miss Gettens and Dr. Shropshire; "Eed, Far-red System 

 and Phytochrome," by Mr. Edwards and Dr. Klein; "Chloroplasts 

 from Chloramphenicol Treated leaves," by Dr. Margulies; and "Phy- 

 toclirome Mediated Carbohydrate Responses in Etiolated Corn Leaf 

 Sections," by Dr. Mitrakos, Mr. Price, and Dr. Klein. Dr. Klein 

 attended the executive committee sessions of the American Society of 

 Plant Physiologists and was chairman of a session. 



J. H. Harrison attended the Intermediate Seminar for Scientific 

 Glass Blowers held in July at the State University of New York, 

 Alfred, N.Y. 



Joel J. Sigalove traveled to Tucson, Ariz., in September to collect 

 water samples to determine flow rates of ground water in certain 

 mountain areas of Arizona. In October Dr. Margulies was a par- 

 ticipant in a symposium on "Photosynthetic Mechanisms of Green 

 Plants" sponsored by the Photobiology Committees of the National 

 Academy of Science — National Research Council at Warrenton, Va. 



Mr. Sigalove and Austin Long attended the Geological Society of 

 America meeting lield in New York City in November. 



Mr. Goldberg and Mr. Harrison attended a 2-week training course 

 in programing computers given by the Control Data Corporation in 

 Rockville, Md. 



In December Dr. D. L. Corrcll participated in a 3-month Antarctic 

 collecting trip aboard the National Science Foundation vessel, the 

 U.S.S. Eltanin. The party sailed from Valparaiso, Chile, on Decem- 

 ber 17 and spent 2 months collecting in the Antarctic Ocean. 



Dr. Shropshire attended the annual meetings of the Biophysical 

 Society in Chicago in February. Dr. Klein spent a week in March 

 in San Juan and Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, consulting with staff scien- 

 tists of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission installations. Dr. Cor- 

 rell attended the regional meetings of the American Chemical Society 

 in April at the University of Maryland, College Park. In May 

 Dr. Klein was a visiting lecturer at the University of Texas in Austin. 

 Dr. Correll attended meetings of the American Society of Limnologj'^ 

 and Oceanography in Miami, Fla., June 14—20, and presented his paper 

 "Pelagic Phosphorus Metabolism in the Antarctic." 



Dr. Margulies presented a lecture at the Research Institute of 

 Advanced Studies in Baltimore on June 10. Dr. Shropshire traveled 

 in June to Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. to confer with Dr. John Cairns 

 at the biological laboratory. 



