Ocrozer 4, 1918] 
600. The average harem, based on a count of 
seven rookeries, was 26.76. The census was 
of date of August 10, and did not include the 
33,881 seals taken during the present calendar 
year. 
Reports have been received from the super- 
intendent and physician, United States Indian 
Service, Neah Bay, Wash., that he has au- 
thenticated 386 fur-seal skins taken this sea- 
son by Indians dwelling on the coast of Wash- 
ington. The seals were all speared from 
canoes and were taken from 10 to 25 miles 
west of La Push, Wash. The records show 
that 379 of the skins were taken in April, May 
and June, 1918, and that 245 of the seals 
were males and 139 females. The superin- 
tendent also stated that a few skins remain 
untagged, and a report on the number will be 
made at the close of the season. 
The lighthouse tender Cedar, which had on 
board some of the heavier portions of the 
equipment for the new by-products plant for 
St. Paul Island arrived at the island on Au- 
gust 11. The material was successfully landed, 
and ground for the foundation of the plant 
was broken on the 14th. The balance of the 
equipment for the plant was delivered by the 
Roosevelt in August. The active sealing op- 
erations were over by the 10th, thereby per- 
mitting the energies of the station to be devoted 
largely to the erection of the plant. It is 
hoped to push the work of constructing the 
buildings and installing the machinery rapidly 
to completion and to begin the manufacture 
of oil and fertilizer from seal carcasses this 
season. The carcasses of approximately 27,- 
000 seals which have been killed on St. Paul 
Island this year will furnish ample material 
for preliminary operations. 
RESEARCH GRANTS FROM TRUST FUNDS OF 
THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
Durie the twelve months preceding the an- 
nual meeting of the academy the following 
grants for the promotion of research were made 
from the trust funds of the academy. 
GRANTS FROM THE BACHE FUND 
No. 205, T. H. Goodspeed, University of Cali- 
fornia, $100. For studies of inheritance in Nico- 
tiana hybrids. 
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No. 206, Reginald A. Daly, Harvard University, 
$700. For the completion of the deep sea thermo- 
graph designed and partly constructed under Grant 
No. 194. In continuation of No. 194. 
No. 207, T. H. Gronwall, New York City, $300. 
To complete and extend mathematical researches on 
conformal representation. 
No. 208, A. Franklin Shull, University of Michi- 
gan, $400. To investigate the cause of sex pro- 
duction and the life cycle of rotifers, together with 
artificial modification of life cycle; differential fac- 
tors in fertilization of male-producing and female- 
producing rotifers; sex determination and the life 
eycle of the thrips; cause of sex production, wing 
production and other cyclical phenomena in aphids. 
No. 209, Cecil K. Drinker, Harvard Medical 
School, $350. For the closer study of the factors 
involved in extension of unchecked red cells and 
leucocytes ‘in the dog. 
GRANTS FROM THE WATSON FUND 
No. 16, Herbert C. Wilson, Goodsell Observatory, 
$300. For a continuance of the work of the de- 
termination of the position and brightness of 
asteroids (chiefly those discovered by Watson by 
the photographic method, together with a study of 
the brightness of some variable stars. (Supple- 
mentary to Grant No. 15.) 
No. 17, John A. Miller, Sproul Observatory, $500. 
To measure plates for determining stellar paral- 
laxes. (Supplementary to Grant No. 14.) 
GRANTS FROM THE J. LAWRENCE SMITH FUND 
No. 9, S. A. Mitchell, University of Virginia, 
$300. To continue his researches on the paths, 
radiants and orbits of meteors. (Supplementary to 
Grant No. 8.) 
GRANT FROM THE MARSH FUND 
No. 2, M. Ferdinand Canu, Versailles, France, 
$250. For investigation in cooperation with Dr. R. 
S. Bassler, of the United States National Museum, 
of the early tertiary bryozoa of North America. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Proressor Ernest Fox Nicuous, of Yale 
University, has been given further leave of ab- 
sence to continue his work in the Ordnance 
Department. 
LIEUTENANT CoLoneL Dr. Jonn M. T. Fin- 
NEY, surgeon-in-chief of the American Expedi- 
tionary Forces, on his recent visit to the 
United States laid plans before the President 
