470 Scientific Intelligence. 



Leland Ossian Howard, of the IT. S. Department of Agriculture ; 

 Alfred Goldsborough Mayer, of the Carnegie Institution, Tor- 

 tugas, Florida ; Raymond Pearl, of the Maine Agricultural 

 Experiment Station ; Phoebus A. T. Levene, of the Rockefeller 

 Institute for Medical Research ; Otto Folin, of the Harvard 

 Medical School. 



The list of papers presented is as follows : 



S. J. Meltzer : On permeability of endothelia. 



I. S. Kleiner and S. J. Meltzer : The influence of morphin upon the 

 elimination of intravenously injected dextrose. 



Jacques Loeb : The sex of a parthenogenetic frog. 



Simon Flexner : Finer mechanisms of protection from infection. 



Edmund B. Wilson : The distribution of the chondrisomes to the sperma- 

 tozoa in scorpions. 



Victor C. Vaughan : Further studies of the protein poison. 



Arthur Keith : A new form of metamorphism. 



J. P. Iddings and E. W. Morley : Contributions to the petrology of 

 Japan, Philippine Islands and the Dutch Indies. 



Charles E. Stockard : Hereditary transmission of defects resulting from 

 alcoholism. 



W. B. Cannon : Eecent observations on the activity of some glands of in- 

 ternal secretion. 



H. H. Donaldson : Studies in the water content of the nervous system. 



George E. Hale : Some recent results of solar research. 



Charles E. St. John : An investigation of the suggested mutual repulsion 

 of Fraunhof er lines. 



Arthur S. King : Anomalous dispersion phenomena in electric furnace 

 spectra. 



Walter S. Adasis : Illustrations of the new spectroscopic method of 

 measuring stellar distances. 



Harlow Shapley : Some results with the new 10-inch photographic 

 telescope. 



C. G. Abbot and L. B. Aldrich : The pyranometer, an instrument for the 

 measurement of sky radiation. 



G. C. Comstock : Invisible companions of binary stars. 



Edwin H. Hall : Theory of electric conduction in metals. 



F. R. Moulton : The evolution of the stars. 



A. 0. Leuschner : The minor planets discovered by James C. Watson. 



Theodore Lyman : The present state of knowledge of the extreme ultra 

 violet. 



Eobert A. Millikan : A redetermination of e and N. 



Carl L. Alsberg : The relation of investigational work to the enforce- 

 ment of the Food and Drugs Act. 



J. Walter Fewkes : Eecent exploration on the Mesa Verde National 

 Park, Colorado. 



Erwin F. Smith : Further evidence on the nature of crown gall and 

 cancer, and that cancer in plants offers strong presumptive evidence both of 

 the parasitic origin and of the essential unity of the various forms of cancer 

 in man and animals. 



In addition to the above, the following were also read in the 

 Symposium on the Exploration of the Pacific, arranged by W. 

 M. Davis: 



W. M. Davis : On exploration of the Pacific. 



J. F. Hayford : The importance of gravity observations at sea in the 

 Pacific. 



L. J. Briggs : New method of determining gravity at sea. 



C. Schuchert : The problem of continental fracturing and diastrophism 

 in Oceaniea. 



J. P. Iddings : Petrological problems in the Pacific. 



