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SCIENCE. 



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-Tereity oi Chicago, 111.; (10) Dr. H. G. 

 Spaulding, College of the City of New 

 York; (11) Dr. Leo Loeb, McGill Univer- 

 sity, Montreal, Canada; (12) Dr. Henry 

 Kraemer, Philadelphia, Pa.; (13) Mr. 

 Grant Smith, Harvard University, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass.; (14) Professor Joseph 

 Guthrie, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa; 

 (15) Miss A. B. Townsend, Cornell Univer- 

 sity, Ithaca, N. Y.; (16) Mr. M. A. Chrys- 

 ler, University of Chicago, 111.; (17) Mr. 

 -Gustav Ruediger, Chicago, 111.; (18) Miss 

 Helen Dean King, Bryn Mawr University, 

 Pa. ; ( 19 ) Mr. James A. Nelson, University 

 of Pennsylvania; (20) Professor Christian 

 P. Lommen, University of South Dakota. 

 The director of the laboratory. Dr. C. 

 0. Whitman, reports that the entire num- 

 ber of investigators at the laboratory dur- 

 ing the season was 130, of whom 54 were 

 students and 76 original investigators. He 

 further states that eveiy worker at the 

 laboratory shares the general advantage 

 secured by the Carnegie Institution grant; 

 that most of the occupants of the Carnegie 

 tables were investigators of established 

 reputation, a few of them fellows from dif- 

 ferent universities engaged in their first 

 original work; that it is not expected that 

 the work undertaken will come to publica- 

 tion immediately, as in most cases it will 

 necessarily extend over two or three years ; 

 that it is anticipated that the Carnegie 

 support will not encourage hasty and frag- 

 mentary production, but will secure thor- 

 ough work and permanent results. 



Maeine Biological Station, Naples, Italy. 



For maintenance of two tables. $1,000. 



Abstract of Report. — One of the tables 

 at this station was occupied for three 

 months during the spring by Dr. E. B. 

 Wilson, of Columbia University, and the 

 other by Professor H. S. Jennnings, of the 

 University of Michigan. The remainder of 

 the year the tables were open to whomever 



the director of the laboratory might wish 

 to assign to them. The arrangement with 

 the laboratory was that the tables were in- 

 tended for the use of persons engaged in 

 original biological researches, and carried 

 with them the right to be furnished with 

 the ordinary material and supplies of the 

 laboratory. 



STUDENT RESEARCH WORK IN WASHINGTON, 

 $10,000. 



A special committee was appointed to 

 consider the question of making provision 

 for training in Washington students who 

 desire to avail themselves of the various 

 openings that may be offered to them. 

 The executive committee, after full discus- 

 sion, decided to place the report of the spe- 

 cial committee on file, without action. 



RESEARCH ASSISTANTS. 



In pursuance of the policy approved by 

 the trustees at their meeting in November, 

 1902, the sum of $25,000 was set aside by 

 the executive committee for the purpose of 

 assisting a certain number of young in- 

 vestigators who have shown exceptional 

 ability and desire to pursue special lines of 

 inquiry, under the oversight of qualified 

 guides, more or less authoritative, accord- 

 ing to the circumstances of each case. 



Announcement of this plan was made by 

 a printed circular, which was published in 

 the winter of 1902-1903, and addressed to 

 the heads of univei"sities, colleges, labora- 

 tories, and other scientific institutions. 



In response to this announcement 127 

 applications were received. These were 

 distributed according to the subjects of in- 

 vestigation and referred to the confidential 

 advisers, whose written opinions were laid 

 before the executive committee with accom- 

 panying papers. The persons below named 

 were then selected: J. H. Bair, Columbia 

 University, New York, N. Y. ; J. W. Baird, 

 Cornell Universitj^ Ithaca, N. Y. ; A. J. 



