April 7, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



521 



H. Eigenmann; 140, K. E. Guthe; 144, G. A. 

 Hulett; 146, M. Nussbaum; 149, P. A. Guye; 

 150, C. A. Kofoid; 152, W. D. Hoyt; 154, J. P. 

 Munson; 155, H. P. Hollnagel; 156, E. 

 Thaster; 157, L. Mercier; 158, H. V. Neal. 



The secretary stated that during the past 

 year no reports had been received from grants 

 22 and 27, awarded in 1889; 117 (1905); 124 

 (1905); 142 (1908), and 147 (1909). Grants 

 107 and 134 were withdrawn, since the recipi- 

 ents were unable to carry on the work for 

 which the grants were awarded, and had re- 

 paid the total amount of the grant. It was 

 voted to close the records of the following 

 grants, since the work had been satisfactorily 

 completed, and the results published: 138, 

 Mme. P. Safarik; 141, J. T. Patterson; 148, 

 0. C. Nutting; 159, B. M. Davis; 160, L. J. 

 Henderson, and to close upon receipt of pub- 

 lications the following: 136, H. Z. Kipp; 161, 

 0. von .Fiirth. The secretary reported that 

 additional publications had been received from 

 W. Doberck (Grant 153), and from J. Koenigs- 

 berger (Grant 139), making a total of six 

 publications aided by this grant. 



An unusually large number of applications 

 was received, and the trustees regretted that 

 they were obliged to decline several which 

 were highly deserving of aid. 



It was voted to make the following new 

 grants : 



162. $200 to Superintendent O. H. Tittmann, 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington, D. C, 

 for observing variations of latitude by means of 

 a photographic zenith tube. 



163. $200 to Professor R. L. Moodie, Univer- 

 sity of Kansas, for phylogenetie studies of Am- 

 phibia. 



164. $200 to Professor J. M. Aldrieh, Univer- 

 sity of Idaho, for a study of invertebrates, espe- 

 cially insects, found in and about the western salt 

 and alkaline lakes. 



165. $150 to Professor M. E. Haggerty, Indiana 

 University, for the study of instinctive reactions 

 in newly born dogs of various breeds, and of the 

 inheritance of these reactions. 



166. $200 to Professors P. C. Blake and C. 

 Sheard, Ohio State University, for verification of 

 the Kirchhoff- Abraham generalization of the 

 Thomson formula for the discharge of a eon- 

 denser. 



167. $150 to Dr. E. Eohde, Heidelberg, Ger- 

 many, for studies of the metabolism of the mam- 

 malian heart. 



168. $125 to Dr. H. Freundlich, Leipzig, Ger- 

 many, for a study of the kinetics of the trans- 

 formation of aliphatic to aromatic compounds. 



169. $150 to Professor G. A. Hulett, Princeton 

 University, for further studies of the electro- 

 chemical equivalent (in continuation of Grant 

 144). 



It was voted that grants shall not be made 

 for the purchase of books or ordinary labora- 

 tory apparatus, or for living expenses, or for 

 appointments essentially similar to scholar- 

 ships or fellowships. It was voted to request, 

 but not to require, that all applications shall 

 be type-written. 



Charles S. Minot, 



Secretary 



HAEVABD EXCHANGE OF TEACEEBS WITH 

 COLLEGES IN THE MIDDLE WEST 



Harvard University has arranged an an- 

 nual exchange of teachers with four of the 

 colleges in the middle west — Colorado College, 

 of Colorado Springs, Colo.; Grinnell College, 

 formerly Iowa College, of Grinnell, la. ; Knox 

 College, of Galesburg, HI., and Beloit College, 

 of Beloit, Wis. Every year, until the arrange- 

 ment is terminated. Harvard University is to 

 send a professor who will spend an equal por- 

 tion of half an academic year with each of the 

 four colleges mentioned above, and during 

 that time will give to the students of these in- 

 stitutions such regular instruction in their 

 courses as may be arranged by their faculties. 

 The salary of this professor will be paid by 

 Harvard University. His traveling expenses 

 will be borne by the four colleges already re- 

 ferred to, and each of them will provide his 

 maintenance while he is in residence. The 

 professor will be selected every year by Har- 

 vard University, with the approval of the co- 

 operating colleges, and he will go in the first 

 or second half-year, as may be agreed. In 

 return, each of the four colleges is expected to 

 send to Harvard University each year one of 

 its younger instructors for haK a year, and 

 during that time he will be appointed an as- 

 sistant in some Harvard course; he will teach 



