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SCIENCE 



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can tie conducted properly only by bibliographers 

 of experience, and at great expense; and 



Whereas, The Concilium Bibliographieum of 

 Zuricli has for a quarter of a century maintained 

 a valuable and unique service in international bib- 

 liography, especially in the fields of zoology, 

 physiology, vertebrate anatomy and general biol- 

 ogy; has continued the bibliography of Engelmann 

 and Carus which covers the period from 1700 to 

 the present; and has maintained a service of gen- 

 eral bibliographic information; and 



Whereas, the ^sciences named are the pure sci- 

 ences upon which the science of medicine rests; 



Therefore resolved, that the American Society 

 of Naturalists (which has in the past made such 

 subsidies to the Concilium as it could afford) cor- 

 dially endorses the effort of the Concilium Bib- 

 liographieum to secure adequate financial support 

 in this country. 



There was elected to honorary membership in 

 the society, William Bateson, John Innes Horti- 

 cultural Institute, England. 



The following were elected to membership: 

 Joseph C. Arthur, Purdue University; Henry C. 

 Cowles, University of Chicago; William Crocker, 

 University of Chicago; Herbert M. Evans, Uni- 

 versity of California; Edward M. Freeman, Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota; Ales HrdliCka, United 

 States National Museum; Clarence M. Jackson, 

 University of Minnesota; Warren H. Lewis, Johns 

 HopMna Medical School; Ann H. Morgan, Mount 

 Holyoke College; John T. Patterson, University 

 of Texas; Everett P. Phillips, United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture; Donald Reddick, New 

 York State College of Agriculture; Jacob E. 

 Schramm, New York State College of Agriculture ; 

 Homer L. Shantz, United iStates Department of 

 Agriculture; Henry B. Ward, University of Illi- 

 nois. 



The following program was presented at the 

 morning session of December 30: 

 Causes of variation in sex ratio of the wasp, Badro- 



hracon: P. W. Whiting. 

 Population and race in the Pacific area: W. E. 



Bitter. 

 The evolution of Pacific coral reefs: A. G. Mayor. 

 The relative importance of heredity and environ- 

 ment in determining the pieiald pattern of 



guineorpigs: Sewall Wright. 

 delations between nuclear number, chromatin mass, 



cytoplasmic mass and shell characteristics in 



Arcella: R. W. Hegner. 

 The function of the striae in the rotation of the 



Suglenoids and the problem of evolution: L. B. 



WAI.TON. 



Iodine and the thyroid: W. W. Swingle. 



Selective fertilization in pollen mixtures: D. P. 



Jones. 

 Changing by castration the hen-feathered into the 



cock-feathered condition: T. H. Morgan. 

 Application of the chromosome theory to embryonic 



differentiation : E. G. Conklin. 



The session of the afternoon of December 30 

 consisted of a symposium on Some relations of 

 biology to human welfare. 

 The theoretical problems of forestry: Raphael 



ZON. 



Biology in relation to ethics: W. E. Ritter. 



Biology and society: W. M. Wheelek. 



The significance of some general biological prin- 

 ciples in public health problems: Raymond 

 Pearl. 



General biology in its relation to medicine: H. E. 

 Jordan (read by title.) 

 The program of December 31 consisted of the 



following papers: 



A type of primary non-disjunction in Drosophila 

 melanogaster : A. H. Stuetevant. 



A sex-linTced recessive linkage variation in Droso- 

 phila melanogaster : C. B. Bridges. 



A race of Drosophila willistoni giving a shortage 

 of females: D. E. Lanoefield and C. W. Metz. 



Mutants and mutability in different species of 

 Drosophila: C. W. Metz. 



Two hereditary tumors in Drosophila: Mary B. 

 Stark. 



Inheritance of the rubriealyx cliaracter in CEno- 

 thera: G. H. Shull. 



An analysis of an intergrading sex character: A. 

 M. Banta and Mary Cover. 



Precocious development in Salpa: a biological not 

 a utilitarian phenomenon: M. M. Metoalf (read 

 by title.) 



Ontogeny versus phylogeny in the development of 

 the sensory apparatus in mammalian embryos: 

 H. H. Lane. 



The influence of alcoholized grandparents upon the 

 behavior of white rats: E. C. MacDowell and 

 E. M. Vicari. 



Evidence of specific evolution in the genus Partula 

 in the Society Islands: H. E. Crampton. 



Inheritance of flower form in Phlox Drummondii: 

 J. P. Kelly. 



An extra chromosome in Camnula pelludda; vari- 

 ations in the number of chromosomes within the 

 testis: Mitchel Carroll. 



Inheritance of milk production and butter-fat per- 

 centage as slwwn by first generation hybrids 

 between the dairy and beef breeds of cattle: J. 



W. GOWEN. 



