b ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1933 



MARTIN GUSTAV AND CAROLINE RUNICE HANSON FUND 



On March 13, 1933, Dr. Adolph M. Hanson, of Faribault, Minn., 

 executed a legal assignment to the Smithsonian Institution of all 

 royalties accruing to him under a patent on his discovery, the isolation 

 of the parathyroid hormone (extract of parathyroid gland and process 

 of preparing the same). In maldng this offer, Dr. Hanson, a lieu- 

 tenant colonel in the Medical Reserve Corps, United States Army, 

 stated that he wished the gift to appear as a memorial to his father, 

 Martin Gustav Hanson, and his mother, Caroline Runice Hanson, 

 and that he wished the income to be applied "to some scientific 

 purpose, preferably in chemistry or medicine." He added, "I hope 

 that my example may serve as an inspiration for others in the future 

 and add to the interest in our National Institution." 



The Institution accepted the gift, and already considerable sums 

 have been received from royalties. These will be applied to the 

 scientific work of the Institution, giving preference wherever practi- 

 cable to researches in chemistry or medicine, in accordance with the 

 wishes of the donor. 



SECOND ARTHUR LECTURE 



In 1931 a bequest was received from James Arthur for the promo- 

 tion of a series of lectures at the Institution dealing with various 

 aspects of the relation of the sun to the planets, the stars, the weather, 

 and human life. The second Arthur lecture was delivered by Dr. 

 Ernest WilHam Brown, professor of mathematics at Yale University, 

 on January 25, 1933, under the title "Gravitation in the Solar System." 

 The lecture will appear later in one of the Institution's series of 

 publications. 



WALTER RATHBONE BACON TRAVELING SCHOLARSHIP 



Mr. Alan Mozley, of the department of zoology of Johns Hopkins 

 University, was awarded the Walter Rathbone Bacon scholarship for 

 1932 and 1933, and later this award was extended to cover 1934 also. 

 Mr, Mozley is pursuing a faunistic study of the Siberian nonmarine 

 mollusks. Regarding the importance of this work, Mr. Alozley says: 



"The study of this problem is especially important, since in the 

 sub-Arctic we have the unique opportunity of investigating a fauna 

 in the making. The whole of this region has only recently become 

 habitable for moUusks, so that we are dealing, as it were, with an 

 experiment in zoogeography, and there is an absolutely unparalleled 

 opportunity for studying geographic distribution without the host of 

 unknown geologic and geographic factors which often result in specu- 

 lations which belong more in the realm of nature study or natural 

 mythology than in science." 



At the close of the year Mr. Mozley was still engaged in field work 

 in Siberia. 



