1921] Proceedings of Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 105 



Election of Officers: 



President — A. H. Patterson. 



Vice-President — ^A. W. Hobbs. 



Permanent Secretary — J. M. Bell. 



Recording Secretary— K. R. Totten. 



Editorial Committee — W. C. Coker, chairman; J. M. Bell, Collier 

 Cobb. 



243rd Meeting— October 19, 1920 



H. V. Wilson — The Mode of Origin of the Nervous System in the 

 Vertebrate Embryo. 



Some recent operative experiments made by Professor Hans 

 Spemann on the salamander embryo were described. These experi- 

 ments showed that a patch of embryonic tissue might be developed 

 into spinal cord, brain, eye, or ordinary epidermis, according to the 

 locality in which it is placed, and seem to constitute decisive evidence 

 against the view that the organs of the body are represented in the 

 egg by localized peculiar substances. 

 Election of Members: 



The following members of the faculty were elected to active 

 membership in the Society: Dr. Otto Stuhlman, Dr. E. A. Abernathy, 

 Capt. Frederick W. Boye, Mr. H. M. Taylor, Mr. H. G. Baity, Mr. 

 W. E. Walke, Mr. Walter B, Jones. The following advanced students 

 and assistants were elected to associate membership: C. P. Savage, 

 Eleanor Hoffmann, P. R. Dawson, T. P. Dawson, R. A. Lineberry, 

 S. C. Smith, A. M. Wolfson, H. L. Cavaness, B. Naiman, R. O. Deitz, 

 S. C. Ogburn, A. B. Owens, F. P. Brooks, J. W. Guard, C. R. Harris, 

 N. W. Taylor, D. M. Carroll, C. B. Ridge, C. J. Bryan, D. St. P. 

 DuBose, W. F. Foote, T. E. Hinson, E. J. Mecum, L. V. Milton, 

 J. D. Morris, P. C. Smith, A. B. Wright, R. M. Casper, M. E. Lake. 

 T. B. Smiley, W. H. Butt, H. S. Boyce, S. B. Lee, J. B. Miller, B. E. 

 Lohr, Roy J. Morton, L J. Stephenson, Clayton Edwards, S. C. 

 Alston, J. B. Noe, F. R. Bacon, J. B. Broach, S. M. Crisp, A. L. 

 Miner, J. W. Harrell, Jr., J. L. Cobb, M. L. Jacobs, J. M. Alexander, 

 Wm. F. Alston, P. M. Grey, A. H. Merritt, J. G. Tucker, C. D. Beers, 

 H. S. Everett, Ernest Atkins. 



244th Meeting — November 9, 1920 



The Society passed the following Resolution : 



Whereas, the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society was organized for the purpose of 

 encouraging scientific investigations in North Carohna; and 



