December 1, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



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England and other parts of the United States. 



John M. Clarke, State Museum, Albany, N. Y. 

 Portfolio of paleontological plates, in press. 

 Plates of "Wild flowers of New York," in 

 press. Geological map of Ogdensburg, N. Y., 

 and vicinity, in press. 



H. W. Shimer, Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 

 ogy. Evolution of some brachiopods. 



Richard M. Field, Harvard University. Ordo- 

 vician rocks and faunas of central Pennsylvania. 



W. B. Scott, Princeton University. Proofs of 

 plates for forthcoming report on paleontology of 

 Patagonia. 



W. J. V. Osterhout, Harvard University. Pig- 

 ments produced by the oxidation of a colorless 

 plant chromogen. 



Charles W. Johnson, Boston Society of Natural 

 History. Distribution and variation of Helix 

 hortensis. 



Joseph A. Cushman, Boston Society of Natural 

 History. Some fossil and recent foraminifera. 



Alfred 6. Mayer, Marine Laboratory, Carnegie 

 Institution. Yacht and laboratory of the Car- 

 negie Institution at Tortugas, Florida. 



Hubert Lyman Clark, Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, Harvard University. Eehinoderms from 

 Torres straits, Australia, with colored drawings 

 and lithographs. 



G. H. Parker, Harvard University. The suction 

 efficiency of a California sea-anemone. 



W. T. Bovte, Harvard University. Visible effects 

 of Schumann rays on protoplasm. Effects of 

 radium rays on permeability of protoplasm. 



C. T. Brues, Bussey Institution, Harvard Univer- 

 sity. Specimens and charts illustrating insects 

 as carriers of infantile paralysis. 



W. E. Castle, Bussey Institution, Harvard Uni- 

 versity. Examples of Mendelian inheritance, 

 reversion and variety formation in rats and 

 guinea-pigs. 



Francis G. Benedict, Nutrition Laboratory, Car- 

 negie Institution. Respiration apparatus for 

 animals. 



T. B. Osborne, Connecticut Agricultural Station, 

 and L. B. Mendel, Sheffield Scientific School, 

 Yale University. Photographs representing the 

 growth of chickens fed with definite mixtures of 

 food stuffs under laboratory conditions which 

 have heretofore not led to success. 



I. Chandler Walker, Medical Service, Peter Bent 

 Brigham Hospital. Proteid sensitization in re- 

 lation to bronchial asthma. 



H. S. Wells, Medical Service, Peter Bent Brigham 

 Hospital. Electrocardiography, or the applica- 

 tion of the string galvanometer to the study of 

 cardiac cases. 



Albert A. Ghoreyeb, Cancer Commission, Har- 

 vard University. Metal casts of heart and kid- 

 ney blood vessels. 



S. B. Wolbach, Harvard Medical School. Studies 

 in Rocky Mountain spotted fever. 



Harvey Cushing and W. M. Boothby, Peter Bent 

 Brigham Hospital. Apparatus of routine meth- 

 ods for clinical metabolism determinations. 



E. W. Goodpasture, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. 

 An anatomical study of senescence, with especial 

 reference to tumors. 



E. E. Tyzzer and C. C. Little, Harvard Medical 

 School. The inheritance of susceptibility to 

 transplanted tumor. 



W. Duane, Harvard Medical School. The tech- 

 nique of the preparation of radium for thera- 

 peutic purposes. 



G. C. Whipple, School for Health Officers, of Har- 

 vard University and Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology. Charts showing organization and 

 membership of the school. 



W. T. Sedgwick, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology. (1) Diagrams and tables illustrating 

 the investigations of Professor Weston and Mr. 

 Turner upon "The digestion of sewage effluents 

 in an otherwise unpolluted stream." (2) An 

 investigation of the behavior of certain species 

 of bacteria in various materials between zero 

 Centigrade and zero Fahrenheit. (3) A field 

 investigation of the sanitary environment of a 

 suburban population. (In room 10-411.) 



S. C. Prescott, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology. Diseases of the banana in Central 

 America and their control. (In room 10-411.) 



Alfred M. Tozzer, Peabody Museum, Harvard 

 University. Race-mixture in Hawaii. 



Charles Peabody, Peabody Museum, Harvard 

 University. Prehistoric specimens from caves 

 of France and Palestine. 



E. A. Hooton, Peabody Museum, Harvard Uni- 

 versity. Casts and reconstruction of ancient 

 man: skull of apes. 



S. J. Guernsey, Peabody Museum, Harvard Uni- 

 versity. Cave explorations in northeastern Ari- 

 zona. 



Oric Bates, Peabody Museum, Harvard Univer- 

 sity. Prehistoric Libyan remains. 



THE NEW YORK MEETING OF THE 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science will hold its sixty-ninth meet- 

 ing in New York City, from December 26 to 

 December 30, 1916. This will be the fifteenth 



