Febeuaey 11, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



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L. J. Briggs ; Vice-presidents, E. Buckinghain, 

 G. K. Burgess, W. J. Hmnplireys, Wm. Bowie; 

 Secretaries, J. A. Fleming, P. G. Agnew; 

 Treasurer, E. B. Sosman ; General Committee : 

 The foregoing officers and the following mem- 

 bers-at-large : H. L. Curtis, K. E. Dorsey, E. L. 

 Faris, E. G. Fischer, D. L. Hazard, E. A. 

 Harris, W. F. G. Swan, W. P. Wliite, F. E. 

 Wright and Past-presidents G. W. Littlehales 

 and C. K. "Weed. 



Ekcent grants from the Bache Fund of the 

 ^National Academy of Sciences have been made 

 by the Committee as follows: 



No. 187 to H. H. Lane, State UniveTsity of 

 Oklahoma, $500 for the purchase of apparatus to 

 be used in a comparative study of the embryos 

 and young of various mammals in order to deter- 

 mine, by physiological experimentation and 

 morphological observations, the correlation be- 

 tween structure and function in the development 

 of the special senses. 



No. 188 to H. W. Norris, Grinnell CoUege, $100 

 for assistance in the analysis of the cranial nerves 

 of CcEcilians (Herpele and Dermophis) . 



No. 189 to E. J. Werber, "Woods Hole, $230 for 

 assistance in experimental studies aiming at the 

 control of defective and monstrous development: 

 (1) The effect of toxic products of metabolism on 

 the developing teleost egg; (2) the effect of ex- 

 perimentally produced diseases of parental meta- 

 bolism on the offspring in mammals. 



No. 190 to H. S. Jennings, Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, $200 for assistance in the study of evolu- 

 tion in a unicellular animal multiplying by fission : 

 heredity, variation, racial differentiation in Bif- 

 flugia. 



No. 191 to P. W. Bridgman, Harvard Univer- 

 sity, $500 for mechanical assistance in an investi- 

 gation of various effects of high hydrostatic pres- 

 sure, in particular the effect of pressure on elec- 

 trical resistance of metals (continuation). 



No. 192 to .T. P. Iddings, Washington, B. C, 

 $1,000 for apparatus and assistance in the micro- 

 scopical and chemical investigation of igneous 

 rocks, for the purpose of extending knowledge re- 

 garding petrographieal provinces and their bear- 

 ing on the problem of isostasy. 



No. 193 to C. A. Kofoid, University of Cali- 

 fornia, $500 for assistance in securing animals in 

 the Indian jungle and in their preparation for 

 study in research on the intestinal protozoa. 



No. 194 to R. A. Baly, Harvard University, 



$1,000 for the purchase of a thermograph of new 

 design for determining temperature in the deep 

 sea. 



No. 195 to R. W. Hegner, University of Michi- 

 gan, $160 for assistance in the study of the his- 

 tory of the germ cells, especially in hermaphrodite 

 animals in order to determine the visible changes 

 that take place in their differentiation and the 

 causes of these changes (continuation). 



The Committee on the Bache Fund at present 

 is constituted as follows : Eoss G. Harrison, 

 Tale University; Arthur G. Webster, Clark 

 University, and Edwin B. Frost, chairman, 

 University of Chicago (Williams Bay, Wis- 

 consin). 



We learn from Nature that the committee 

 appointed by the Paris Academy of Sciences 

 to examine the requests for grants from the 

 Bonaparte Fund make the following proposals, 

 which have been confirmed by the academy : 



3,000 francs to Auguste Lameere, professor at 

 the University of Brussels, to enable him to con- 

 tinue his researches at the Roseoff Zoological Sta- 

 tion. 



4,000 francs to Charles Le Morvan, assistant as- 

 tronomer at the Paris Observatory, for the publi- 

 cation of a systematic and photographic map of 

 the moon. 



2,000 francs to Paul Vayssifere, for the continu- 

 ation of his researches on the various species of 

 cochineal insects. 



3,000 francs to Francois de Zeltner, to contribute 

 to the cost of a proposed expedition to the Sudan- 

 ese Sahara, more particularly in the Air massif. 



2,500 francs to Leonard Bordas, to assist him in 

 pursuing his investigations relating to insects at- 

 tacking trees and forests, and more especially spe- 

 cies which at the present time are devastating the 

 woods of the central plateau and west of France. 



3,000 francs to Joseph Bouget, botanist at the 

 Pic du Midi Observatory, for realizing his cultural 

 experiments on a larger scale, with special refer- 

 ence to the improvement of the pastures of the 

 Pyrenees. 



3,000 francs to Henry Devaux, professor of plant 

 physiology at Bordeaux, for the continuation of 

 his researches on the cultivation of plants in arid 

 or semi-desert regions. 



2,000 francs to Victor Piraud, for the continua- 

 tion of his studies on the fauna of Alpine lakes 

 and torrents, particularly at high altitudes. 



2,000 francs to Marc Tiffeneau, for the coritinu- 



