Mat 7, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



693 



' ' A Vortex Hypothesis of Sun Spots, ' ' by George 

 E. Hale. 



"The Speetroseopio Binary, Mu Orionis," by 

 Edwin B. Frost. 



"One-Dimensional Gases and the Experimental 

 Determination of the Law of Eefleetion for Gas 

 Molecules, ' ' by Eobert W. Wood. 



' ' The Relations Between Eesonance and Absorp- 

 tion Spectra," by Eobert W. Wood. 



"On the Polarized Fluorescence of Ammonio- 

 TJranyl Chloride/' by Edward L. Nichols and H. L. 

 Howes. 



"Atomism in Modern Physics," by Eobert A. 

 Millikan (by invitation of the Program Com- 

 mittee). 



"Problems Associated with the Origin of Coral 

 Eeefs, Suggested by a Shaler Memorial Study of 

 the Eeefs of Fiji, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, 

 New Hebrides, Queensland and the Society Islands, 

 in 1914," by William Morris Davis. 



"Inorganic Constituents of Marine Inverte- 

 brates," by P. W. Clarke. 



"Amphibia and Eeptilia of the American Car- 

 boniferous," by Eoy L. Moodie (introduced by H. 

 E. Osborn). 



' ' Human Races of the Old Stone Age of Europe, 

 the Geologic Time of their Appearance, their Ra- 

 cial and Anatomical Characters," by Henry Fair- 

 field Osborn and J. Howard McGregor. 



"On the Fossil Algse of the Petroleum-yielding 

 Shales of the Green River Formation, ' ' by Charles 

 A. Davis, geologist, Bureau of Mines (by invitation 

 of the Program Committee). 



"The Forests of Porto Rico," by Nathaniel L. 

 Eritton. 



"Pictures on Prehistoric Pottery from the 

 Mimbres Valley in New Mexico and their Eolation 

 to those of Casas Grandes, " by J. Walter Fewkes. 



' ' Inheritance of Temperament, ' ' by Charles B. 

 Davenport. 



"Inheritance of Huntington's Chorea," by 

 Charles B. Davenport. 



"The Fur Seal Herd of the Pribilof Islands," 

 by George H. Parker, official representative of the 

 academy upon the Special Commission appointed 

 by the President of the United States to study and 

 report upon the Alaskan Fur Seals during the 

 Bummer of 1914. 



"The Evolution of the Earth," by Thomas 

 Chrowder Chamberlin, of the University of Chi- 

 cago, William EUery Hale lecturer. 



The president announced that the preparation of 

 biographical memoirs of deceased members had 

 been assigned aa follows: 



Bowditch, Henry P Cannon, Walter B. 



Davidson, George Existing biography ap- 

 proved. 



Gould, B. A Comstock, George C. 



Mitchell, Henry Hayford, John F. 



Mitchell, Silas Wier Welch, William H. 



Chandler, Seth Carlo . . . Elkin, William L. 

 Peirce, Benjamin Osgood.Hall, E. H. 

 Holden, Edw. Singleton. Campbell, W. W. 

 Hill, George William . . . Brown, E. W. 

 Gill, Theodore Nicholas. .Dall, William H. 

 Minot, Charles Sedgwick. Donaldson, Henry H. 

 Billings, John S Garrison, Fielding H. 



The president announced the death since the 

 autumn meeting of one foreign associate: 



Auwers, G. F. J. Arthur, January 24, 1915, 

 elected 1883. 



JReports of the President and Treasurer 



The reports of the presidenti and treasurers for 

 1914 as transmitted to the senate of the United 

 States by the president of the academy were pre- 

 sented in their printed form and approved. 



Beport of the Some Secretary 

 The President op the National Academy of 

 Sciences : 



Sir: I have the honor to present the annual re- 

 port of home secretary of the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences for the year ending April 21. 

 1915. 



The memoir of the National Academy of Sci- 

 enees, Volume 12, Part 1, and bearing the title, 

 ' ' Monograph of the Bombyeine Moths of North 

 America," by A. S. Packard, edited by T. D. A, 

 Cockerell, has been published and distributed to 

 the members, foreign associates, institutions and 

 reference libraries j Volume 12, Part 3, of the 

 Memoirs, entitled ' ' The Turquoise, ' ' by Joseph 

 E. Pogue, has also been published and distributed 

 to the members; Part 2 of this same volume en- 

 titled, "Variations and Ecological Distribution 

 of the Snails of the Genus lo," by Charles C. 

 Adams, has received final consideration, and is 

 now waiting to be bound at the Government 

 Printing Office; the memoir forming Volume 13, 

 being "A Catalogue of the Meteorites of North 

 America," by Oliver C. Farrington, only awaits 

 press work and binding before it is issued. 



The biographical memoirs of John Wesley 

 Powell, Charles A. Sehott and Miers Fisher Long- 

 streth have been published. The publication of 

 the memoir of J. Peter Lesley, by Dr. WUliam M. 

 Davis, has been approved by the committee on 

 publication, and the biography of Henry Morton, 



1 Report of the National Academy of Sciences 

 for the year 1914, pp. 11-56. 



2 Idem, pp. 57-65. 



