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accept, and it will serve the greatest good to the 

 greatest number by giving every one a fair share 

 in the use of our present limited facilities for 

 publication. 



THE GRANTS FOR RESEARCH OF THE 

 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Progress has been reported as follows on 

 grants made by the National Academy of 

 Sciences : 



BACHE rUND 



The researches of Carl H. Eigenmann, for 

 which grants 214 and 220 were made, have been 

 published in the Memoirs of the Museum of Com- 

 pdrative Zoology, Vol." 43, Parts 1 and 2, and in 

 the Proceedings of the American Philosophical 

 Society, the Journal of the Washington Academy 

 of Sciences, and the Indiana ' ' University 

 Studies. ' ' The research on fishes of the upper 

 Amazon basin and Lake Titicaca is still in 

 progress. . \,( 



A preliminary papra'-. on the work of H. W. 

 Norris on cranial nerves of amia and lepidosteus 

 will be published shortly in the Proceedings of the 

 Iowa Academy of Science. 



Star counts have been made by H. Nort, of 

 Gouda, Holland, for more charts of the southern 

 hemisphere. Additional counts have been made to 

 find distance correction for the Franklin Adams 

 charts. Formulae have been derived to compute 

 the equatorial coordinates of the fields counted 

 from the declination and the E.A. of the center 

 of the plate and the focal length of the telescope 

 used. The limiting magnitude for ten additional 

 charts of the northern hemisphere has been de- 

 rived. 



Preliminary results of the research of J. C. 

 Jensen, grant No. 218, have been published in 

 the Proceedings of the Nebraska Academy of 

 Science for 1919. 



Eesults of the research of H. G. Barbour, of 

 McGill University, grant No. 219, have been pub- 

 lished in the Proceedings for Experimental 

 Biology and Medicine, 1920; The Journal of 

 Pharmacology and JExperimental Therapeutics, 

 1921 ; and The American Journal of Physiology, 

 1921. 



Preliminary results of the research of T. H. 

 Goodspeed, of the University of California, grant 

 No. 224, have been published in the University of 

 California Publications in Botany, Vol. 5. 



SMITH FUND 



There was issued in 1921 as a publication of 

 the Leander McCormiek Observatory of the Uni- 



versity ■ of the University of Virginia, ' ' 349 

 parabolic orbits of meteor streams and other re- 

 sults, ' ' by Charles P. Olivier, a discussion of 

 22,000 observations of meteors made by members 

 of the American Meteor Society. It is a com- 

 prehensive report of results of an investigation 

 which has been aided by several grants from the 

 J. Lawrence Smith Fund at various times since 

 1913 to Professor S. A. Mitchell, director of the 

 McCormiek Observatory, under whose supervision 

 the work has been done. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. E. a. de Schweinitz, professor of 

 ophthalmology at the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, gave the presidential address at the 

 opening session of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation held at St Louis on May 23. 



Dr. E. W. Rice, Jr., has been elected honor- 

 ary chairman of the board of directors of the 

 General Electric Company. He will devote his 

 time particularly to the supervision of the sci- 

 entific, engineering and technical work of the 

 oompany in this country and abroad. 



Dr. Ross Aiken Gortner, professor of ag- 

 ricultural biochemistry at the University of 

 Minnesota, has been elected to the office of na- 

 tional president of Phi Lambda Upsilon, the 

 honorary chemical society. He succeeds Dr. 

 Harold A. Fales, of Columbia University. 



The annual meeting of the Iron and Steel 

 Institute, under the presidency of Mr. Francis 

 Samuelson, was held on May 4 and 5 at the 

 house of the institution. The Bessemer Medal 

 was presented to Professor Kotaro Honda. 



Dr. Murk Jansen, of Leyden, has received 

 the Umberto I prize awarded every five years 

 by the province of Bologna for the best work 

 or discovery in orthopedics. 



At the recent annual meeting of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences the election of 

 the following fellows and foreign honorary 

 members was reported by the council : Class I. 

 The Mathematical and Physical Sciences: Wal- 

 ter S}'dney Adams, Pasadena ; Gano Dunn, New 

 York; Thomas Alva Edison, Orange, N. J.; 

 Edwin Crawford Kemble, Cambridge; Richard 

 Chase Tolman, Washington; Arthur Stanley 

 Eddington, Cambridge, England. Class II. 



