REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 9 
The distinguished specialists who form the committee on award 
for the examination of the memoirs submitted in the Hodgkins prize 
competition, announced in connection with the Congress on Tuber- 
culosis of 1908, have not yet submitted their decision. ‘This delay 
is regretted by the Institution as sincerely as by the competitors, but 
has seemed to be unavoidable as the large number of papers pre- 
sented and their technical character make it very difficult to render 
a prompt decision. 
Then, too, it is to be remembered that, according to the terms of 
the competition, the successful paper is to embody an original theory 
or discovery for the treatment of tuberculosis, not before published, 
a difficult task at a time when the attention of the medical world is 
so generally directed to the same subject. 
The Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight, the publication of 
which by the Hodgkins fund of the Institution was unfortunately 
delayed by causes beyond the control of the Institution, was com- 
pleted just at the close of the fiscal year, as mentioned on another 
page. . 
SMITHSONIAN TABLE AT NAPLES ZOOLOGICAL STATION. 
The Smithsonian Institution for 18 years past has maintained a 
table for the use of American biologists at the Naples Zoological 
Station. Exceptional opportunities are there afforded for the study 
of marine life, and it is believed that the cause of biological science 
has been thereby much advanced. 
The application of Dr. R. S. Williams, of Miami University, 
mentioned in the Secretary’s Report for 1910, was approved for 
March and April, 1911. Dr. Williams was chiefly occupied at 
Naples in ascertaining the rate of growth of recent encrusting 
organisms, especially bryozoans, with a view to the use of this 
information in researches on the Richmond division of the Ordo- 
vician period. The results thus far obtained by him he considers 
preliminary, and he proposes to continue the same research at some 
future time on a float anchored in the open sea. 
In addition to his work on the bryozoan fauna, Dr. Williams 
secured a representative collection of the jaw apparatus of the 
free-swimming annelids belonging to the Eunfidea and _ the 
Glyceridea. 
The appointment of Dr. Sergius Morgulis, a Parker Traveling 
Fellow from Harvard for 1911, was approved for the Smithsonian 
seat at Naples for the months of May, June, and July of this year. 
Dr. C. W. Hargitt, of Syracuse University, a Smithsonian ap- 
pointee at Naples for three months in 1903, was accorded a second 
occupancy during the present year. Several papers, among which 
