﻿I48 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS h'OL. 47 



Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 



Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y. 



Indiana University, Bloomington. 



Iowa Agricultural College, Ames. 



Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. 



Kansas Agricultural College, Manhattan. 



Kentucky State College, Lexington. 



Leland Stanford Jr. University, Cal. 



Michigan State Agricultural College, Ingham county, Michigan. 



University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 



University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 



Olivet College, Olivet, Michigan. 



Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J. 



Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y. 



Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania. 



Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. 



West Virginia University, Morgantown. 



Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 



The individual periods of occupancy of the Smithsonian table have 

 varied in length from a month to six months, it having been decided 

 in the interest of all who desire the seat that no appointment should 

 be approved for longer than the latter term, although in exceptional 

 cases an extension may be asked for and granted, if such action does 

 not interfere with the occupancy of other applicants. 



In order to give all prospective appointees equal opportunities to 

 avail themselves of the advantages of the table, the Smithsonian seat 

 is not assigned more than six months in advance of the date for 

 which it is desired ; it has therefore been requested that applications 

 be submitted at the time when it is in order to take them up for con- 

 sideration. Should more than one request be filed for the same 

 period, appointment is made according to priority of application, 

 within the specified six months. 



An application for a seat accompanied with historical data and 

 recommendatory letters is referred to the Advisory Committee for 

 consideration and report, and on this report the Secretary of the 

 Institution bases his action. In case of approval, the Director of 

 the Station is notified and a summary of the appointee's scientific his- 

 tory is transmitted to him, so that each investigator finds himself 

 introduced in advance to Doctor Dohrn and his assistants. 



1 >f the four tables now subscribed for by scientific bodies in the 

 United States, two are maintained by the Carnegie Institution and 



