May 11, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



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rical ward of the Johns Hopkins University Hos- 

 pital is adjacent to his laboratory, and about forty 

 newborn infants a month are available for study. 

 The hospital is prepared to cooperate in the work 

 but will not pay the expenses connected with it. 

 No systematic study of the development of infants 

 has hitherto been made under laboratory condi- 

 tions. 



One hundred dollars to Professor E. S. Wood- 

 worth for compiling anthropometric data. Dr. 

 Woodworth, who is professor of psychology in Co- 

 lumbia University, had charge of an anthropometric 

 laboratory at the St. Louis Exposition. Many 

 physical, psychophysical and mental measurements 

 were made of the savage and semi-civilized peoples 

 who were assembled at the exposition, as well as of 

 ordinary visitors. Parts of the data have been com- 

 piled and published, but there remains a large part 

 of the material that it has not been possible to 

 collate, owing to the fact that our psychological 

 laboratories do not have means to pay the expenses 

 of computation. 



One hundred dollars to Professor Kobert M. 

 Terkes toward the cost of apparatus and care of 

 animals in the study of animal behavior. Dr. 

 Yerkes, who is assistant professor of psychology at 

 Harvard University and ia this year president of 

 the American Psychological Association, has made 

 many original contributions to animal psychology 

 as well as in other directions, and wishes during 

 the summer to study the alleged ideational be- 

 havior of the horse. WhUe extraordinary per- 

 formances of trained horses have been published 

 and have attracted wide attention, the work has 

 not been done under experimental conditions. The 

 construction of apparatus and the care of animals 

 is expensive and can not be met by the ordinary 

 laboratory appropriation. 



ANTHROPOLOGY 



One hundred dollars to Dr. A. HrdliCka for 

 anthropometrical investigations on the tribe of 

 Shawnee in Oklahoma. Dr. Hrdlieka, who is cu- 

 rator of physical anthropology in the United States 

 National Museum and one of our ablest physical 

 anthropologists, coidd with advantage carry on 

 these investigations and the work is pressing, as 

 the tribe, so far as pure bloods are concerned, is 

 becoming rapidly extinct. 



One hundred dollars to Dr. Beuno Oetteking, 

 now working at the American Museum of Natural 

 History, for the purpose of completing the investi- 

 gation of skeletal material from the Pacific coast 

 of America. The assistance needed is required for 



the tabulation and reduction of measurements. 

 This grant is recommended by Professor Pranz 

 Boas, chairman of the subcommittee on anthropol- 

 ogy of the Committee of One Hundred. 



GENERAL 



Two hundred dollars to the Pacific Coast Sub- 

 committee of the Committee of One Hundred on 

 Scientific Research, of which Professor J. C. Mer- 

 riam, of the University of California, is chairman. 

 The grant is to be used for printing, postage and 

 clerical work in connection Vfith an investigation 

 to secure organized information relative to re- 

 search on the Pacific coast. It is planned to se- 

 cure from each investigator a brief statement of 

 his training, accomplishment, plans for work and 

 needs for supporting the investigation in progress 

 or projected. The work is beiag done in coopera- 

 tion with the scientific organizations of the Pacific 

 coast and the committee of the National Research 

 Council on a census of the scientific resources of 

 the United States. J. McKeen Cattell, 



Secretary 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



THE CARNEGIE EXPEDITION FOR THE STUDY 

 OF CORAL REEFS 



Professor L. E. Gary and Dr. Alfred Q. 

 Mayer, members of the Carnegie Institution 

 expedition to study tlie coral reefs of Tutuila, 

 Samoa, have returned. 



It was found that the surface water at the 

 equator is cooler and less aUvaline than that 

 5° or 10° north or south. 



Also equatorial counter currents against the 

 prevailing westerly drift of the tropical Pacific 

 were generally places where the water is rela- 

 tively acid, thus suggesting that they may 

 occur in regions wherein the cold deep water 

 comes to the surface. 



The rain-water of Samoa is acid, of the order 

 10"^, but the streams and springs of both 

 Samoa and Hawaii are alkaline, having a hy- 

 drogen ion concentration of 10~'. Thus the 

 reefs can not be dissolved by the " acidity " of 

 the outflowing waters, and the Murray- Agassiz 

 solution-theory fails to account for the origin 

 of barrier reefs. On the other hand, scouring 

 due to currents, and to the activity of holothu- 

 rians are important factors. 



Observation upon Alcyonaria and stony 



