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especially fit to be entrusted with their own 

 freedom. It is likely that an enlightened 

 society can be relied on to recognize this; 

 but it is particularly the duty of the uni- 

 versities, if they believe in their own best 

 traditions, to speak with no uncertain voice. 

 "We look chiefly to them for progress in 

 those fundamental fields of knowledge which 

 ultimately concern more intimately than 

 any others the future of civilization; and 

 if they are to continue their leadership they 

 must show that they value above all im- 

 mediate advantages the tradition of aca- 

 demic freedom. 



Ralph S. Lillie 

 Clakk Univeksitt, 

 February 1, 1914 



THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 

 The Academy will hold its annual meeting 

 at Washington on April 19, 20, 21, 1915. The 

 program is as follows: 



MONDAY, APRIL 19 



10 A.M. — Business meeting of the Academy in 

 the Oak Room of the Hotel Ealeigh. 



1 P.M. — Luncheon in the private dining-room of 

 the Hotel Baleigh. 



2.30 P.M. — Auditorium, National Museum. Pub- 

 lic scientific session : 



Thomas H. Morgan: "Localization of the 

 Hereditary Material in Germ Cells. ' ' (30 min- 

 utes.) 



Problems of Nutrition and Growth: 



Jacques Loeb: "Stimulation of Growth." (30 

 minutes.) 



Lafayette B. Mendel: "Specific Chemical As- 

 pects of Growth." (30 minutes.) 



Eugene F. Du Bois, medical director, Russell 

 Sage Institute of Pathology (by invitation of the 

 program committee): "Basal Metabolism during 

 the Period of Growth." (30 minutes.) 



L S. Kleiner and S. J. Meltzer: "Retention in 

 the Circulation of Injected Dextrose in Depancre- 

 atized Animals and the Effect of an Intravenous 

 Injection of an Emulsion of Pancreas upon this 

 Retention." (10 minutes.) 



5 P.M. — Meeting of the editors of the Proceed- 

 ings, Cosmos Club. 



8 P.M. — Auditorium, National Museum. 



First William EUery Hale Lecture, by Thomas 



Chrowder Chamberlin, of the University of Chi- 

 cago. Subject: "The Evolution of the Earth." 

 (Hlustrated.) 



The lecture will be followed by a conversazione 

 in the Art Gallery of the National Museum. 



TUESDAY, APRIL 20 



10 A.M. — Auditorium, National Museum. Pub- 

 lic scientific session: 



Joel Stebbins, Draper Medallist: "The Elec- 

 trical Photometry of Stars." (30 minutes, illus- 

 trated.) 



George E. Hale: "A Vortex Hypothesis of Sun 

 Spots." (20 minutes, illustrated.) 



Edwin B. Frost: "The Spectroscopic Binary, Mu 

 Orionis. " (10 minutes, Olustrated.) 



Robert W. Wood: "One-dimensional Gases and 

 the Experimental Determination of the Law of 

 Reflection for Gas Molecules." (10 minutes, il- 

 lustrated.) 



Robert W. Wood: "The Relation between Res- 

 onance and Absorption Spectra." (15 minutes, 

 illustrated. ) 



Edward L. Nichols and H. L. Howes: "On the 

 Polarized Fluorescence of Ammonio-Uranyl Chlor- 

 ide." (15 minutes, illustrated.) 



Robert A. Millikan (by invitation of the Pro- 

 gram Committee): "Atomism in Modern Phys- 

 ics." (30 minutes, illustrated.) 



1 P.M. — ^Luneheon in the Oak Room of the Hotel 

 Raleigh. 



2.30 P.M. — Auditorium, National Museum. Pub- 

 lic scientific session: 



WUliam Morris Davis: "Problems Associated 

 with the Origin of Coral Reefs, suggested by a 

 Shaler Memorial Study of the Reefs of Fiji, New 

 Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, New Hebrides, 

 Queensland and the Society Islands, in 1914." 

 (60 minutes, illustrated.) 



F. W. Clarke: "Inorganic Constituents of Ma- 

 rine Invertebrates." (15 minutes.) 



Roy L. Moodie (introduced by Henry Fairfield 

 Osborn) : ' ' Amphibia and Reptilia of the Ameri- 

 can Carboniferous." (15 minutes, illustrated.) 



Henry Fairfield Osborn and J. Howard Mc- 

 Gregor: "Human Races of the Old Stone Age of 

 Europe, the Geologic Time of their Appearance, 

 their Racial and Anatomical Characters." (15 

 minutes, illustrated.) 



Charles A. Davis, geologist. Bureau of Mines 

 (by invitation of the Program Committee): "On 

 the Fossil Algse of the Petroleum-yielding Shales 

 of the Green River Formation." (15 minutes, il- 

 lustrated.) 



