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SCIENCE 



64S 



T>. C, on April 17, 18, 19, 1916. Seventy-two mem- 

 bers were present as follows: 



Charles Greeley Abbot, J. Asapli Allen, J. S. 

 Ames, George F. Becker, B. B. Boltwood, Nathaniel 

 Lord Britton, Henry Andrews Bumstead, D. H. 

 Campbell, Walter Bradford Cannon^ J. IVIcKeen 

 Cattell, W. B. Clark, P. W. Clarke, J. M. Clarke, 

 George C. C'omstook, E. 6. Conklin, J. M. Coulter, 

 Whitman Cross, William H. Dall, C. B. Davenport, 

 W. M. Davis, Arthur L. Day, H. H. Donaldson, 

 Jesse Walter Fewkes, Simon Flexuer, Arnold 

 Hague, George E. Hale, E. H. Hall, R. A. Harper, 

 John F. Hayford, W. F. Hillebrand, W. H. 

 Holmes, W. H. Howell, Joseph Iddings, Herbert 

 Spencer Jennings, Armin Otto Leusehner, F. E. 

 Lillie, Jacques Loeb, Graham Lusk, F. P. Mall, S. 

 J. Meltzer, Lafayette B. Mendel, C. Hart Merriam, 

 Ernest Merritt, Eobert A. Millikan, E. H. Moore, 

 Edward W. Morley, H. N. Morse, F. R. Moulton, 

 E. L. Nichols, A. A. Noyes, George H. Parker, Ed- 

 ward C. Pickering, M. I. Pupin, F. L. Eansome, H. 

 Fielding Eeid, Ira Remsen, Edward B. Rosa, 

 Charles iSchuehert, William B. Scott, E. F. Smith, 

 William E. iStory, C. R. Van Hise, E. B. Van Vleck, 

 Charles D. Walcott, Arthur G. Webster, William 

 H. Welch, William M. Wheeler, David White, H. 

 S. White, Edmund B. Wilson, R. W. Wood, E. S. 

 Woodward. 



The following scientific program was carried 

 out in full: 



Monday, April 17 

 Morning Session 



"On Permeability of Endoihelia," by S. J. 

 Meltzer. 



"The Influence of Morphin upon the Elimina- 

 tion of Intravenously Injected Dextrose," by I. S. 

 Kleiner and S. J. Meltzer. 



"The Sex of a Parthenogenetic Frog," by 

 Jacques Loeb. 



"The Distribution of the Chondrosomes to the 

 Spermatozoa in Scorpions, ' ' by Edmund B. Wil- 

 son. 



Symposium on tlie Exploration of the Pacific 



Arranged by W. M. Davis (by invitation of the 



Program Committee) 



"On Exploration of the Pacific," by W. M. 

 Davis. 



"The Importance of Gravity Observations at 

 Sea in the Pacific," by J. F. Hayford. 



"A New Method of Determining Gravity at 

 Sea," by L. J. Briggs, president of the Philo- 

 sophical Society of Washington. 



"The Problem of Continental Fracturing and 

 Diastrophism in Oceanica, " by C. Schuchert. 



"Petrological Problems in the Pacific," by J. 

 P. Iddings. 



Afternoon Session 



"A New Form of Metamorphism," by Arthur 

 Keith (introduced by George F. Becker). 



' ' Contributions to the Petrology of Japan, Phil- 

 ippine Islands and the Dutch Indies," by J. P. 

 Iddings and E. W. Morley. 



Symposium on the Exploration of the Pacific (Con- 

 tinued from the Morning Session) 



"The Extent of Knowledge of the Oceanog- 

 raphy of the Pacific," by iG. W. Littlehales, 

 Hydrographic Engineer, United States Hydro- 

 graphic Office. 



' ' Marine Meteorology and the General Circula- 

 tion of the Atmosphere," by C. F. Marvin, Chief 

 of the United States Weather Bureau. 



' ' On the Distribution of Pacific Invertebrates, ' ' 

 by Wm. H. Dall. 



' ' Land Mollusca of the Pacific, " by H. A. Pils- 

 bry, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia. 



"Marine Algse of the Pacific, " by W. G. Farlow. 



"Problems of the Pacific Floras," by D. H. 

 Campbell. 



' ' The Pacific as a Field for Anthropological In- 

 vestigation, ' ' by J. W. Fewkes. 



Papers of the Begular Program 



"Hereditary Transmission of Defects resulting 

 from Alcoholism," by Charles E. Stockard. (By 

 invitation of the Program Committee.) 



' ' Recent Observations on the Activity of some 

 Glands of Internal Secretion," by W. B. Cannon. 



' ' Studies in the Water Content of the Nervous 

 System," by H. H. Donaldson. 



First William Ellery Hale Lecture, by Henry 

 Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History. Subject: "The Origin 

 and Evolution of Life on the Earth." (Illus- 

 trated.) 



The lecture was followed by a conversazione in 

 the art gallery of the museum. 



Tuesday, Apeil 18 



' ' Some Recent Results of Solar Research, ' ' by 

 George E. Hale. 



"An Investigation of the Suggested Mutual 

 Repulsion of Fraunhofer Lines," by Charles B. 

 St. John (introduced by G. E. Hale). 



