DrceMBER 6, 1918] 
THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
THE scientific program at the recent Balti- 
more meeting was as follows: 
Cloud reflection and the albedo of the earth and 
Venus. C. G. Abbot. 
Colorimetry of white surfaces. 
introduced by J. 8. Ames. 
The inorganic constituents of lobster shells. F. 
W. Clarke and G. Steiger. 
Hydrocephalus. Experimental and clinical study. 
W. E. Dandy, introduced by W. S. Halsted. 
Clinical and experimental observations in cases 
of arterio-venous and lymphatico-venous fistule. 
W. 8. Halsted 
Quantitative relations between chromatin and 
eytoplasm in the genus Arceila, with their relations 
to external characters. R. W. Hegner, introduced 
by H. S. Jennings. : 
The physiological effects of air-coneussion. D. 
R. Hooker. 
Two new factors in blood-coagulation. 
Howell. 
Is the arrangement of the genes in the chromo- 
some linear? W. E. Castle. 
Cause of phyllomania in Begonia. E. F. Smith. 
Comparative morbidity of white and colored 
troops. Chas. B. Davenport and Albert G. Love. 
Second report on researches on the chemical and 
mineralogical composition of meteorites (illus- 
trated). George P. Merrill. 
Theory of wind instruments; The ballistic resist- 
ance function; The dynamics of the rifle fired from 
the shoulder. A. G. Webster. 
Biographical sketch of George Davidson. W. W. 
Campbell. (By title.) 
A. H. Pfund, 
Wisp. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
In addition to the national scientific so- 
cieties announced in Science last week as 
meeting in affiliation with the American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science at 
Baltimore during convocation week, the So- 
ciety of American Bacteriologists will meet on 
Friday and Saturday, December 27 and 28. 
The president is Dr. R. C. Buchanan, and the 
secretary, Dr. A. Parker Hitchens, Army Med- 
ical School, 462 Louisiana Ave., Washington, 
io Mee 
In view of the changed conditions after the 
armistice, the council of the American Psy- 
chological Association has decided to recon- 
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sider the postponement of the annual meeting. 
It has now been definitely planned to have a 
brief and rather informal meeting upon war 
topics on December 27 and 28, at Baltimore. 
A detailed announcement will be sent to mem- 
bers shortly. 
Tue Inter-Allied Scientific Conference after 
its meeting in London under the auspices of 
the Royal Society adjourned to Paris where 
it continued at the end of November its meet- 
ings under the auspices of the Academy of 
Seiences. The American delegates are: Dr. 
H. A. Bumstead, Colonel J. J. Carty, Pro- 
fessor W. F. Durand, Dr. Simon Flexner, Dr. 
George E. Hale, and Professor A. A. Noyes. 
AT a recent meeting of the New York branch 
of the American Chemical Society held at the 
Chemists’ Club, resolutions were passed pro- 
posing the organization of an American 
Chemical Institute under the auspices of the 
American Chemical Society, whose special 
function shall be to promote research with a 
view to the introduction of new or improved 
medicinal products, so as to make the United 
States free of any future effort to control this 
field by German manufacturers. 
Senator Rosert S. Brooxinas, of Missouri, 
has been named by the Senate to be a regent 
_of the Smithsonian Institution to succeed the 
late Charles W. Fairbanks. 
Wirs the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, Dr. 
William Pepper, Dean of the University of 
Pennsylvania Medical School, has been reas- 
signed to work at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. 
Dr. Georce A. BaltsEtt, assistant professor 
of biology in Yale University, has been 
granted leave of absence to accept an appoint- 
ment as captain in the Chemical Warfare 
Service, United States Army. 
Dr. M. F. Barrus, of the department of plant 
pathology at Cornell University, has recently 
been commissioned first lieutenant in the 
Quartermaster’s Corps. He will be engaged 
in the crop production work of the army. 
Dr. A. G. McCatu, in charge of the soil in- 
vestigational work of the Maryland Experi- 
ment Station, has been selected by the army 
