480 Scientific Intelligence. 



Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair; John R. Free- 

 man. Providence; Charles J. Herrick, University of Chicago; 

 Ludwig Hektoen, University of Chicago; Frank B. Jewett, 

 Western Electric Company; Walter Jones, Johns Hopkins 

 University; Irving Langmuir, General Electric Company. 

 The titles of papers presented are as follows: 



The effects of a prolonged reduced diet on twenty-five college men : 



I. Francis G. Benedict: On basal metabolism and nitrogen 

 excretion. 



II. Walter K. Miles : On neuromuscular processes and mental 

 condition. 



III. H. Monmouth Smith: On efficiency during muscular work 

 and general muscular condition. 



W. S. Halsted: The partial occlusion of great arteries in man and 

 animals. 



S. J. Meltzer: The favorable effect of subcutaneous injection of mag- 

 nesium sulphate in tetanus. The possible danger of intravenous injection 

 of magnesium sulphate. The antagonistic and curative action of calcium 

 salts in these cases. 



Henry Fairfield Osborn: The Liberty field hospital ward; adapted to 

 American overseas summer and winter service. 



Simon Flexner: The war and medical research. 



Edward Kasner: Conformal geometry. 



S. J. Barnett: Magnetism by rotation. 



A. A. Michelson : On the correction of optical surfaces. 



W. W. Campbell: Some recent observations of the brighter nebulae. 



R. A. Millikan : Physical researches for the war. 



F. W. Clarke: Notes on isotopie lead. 



Lawrence J. Henderson: The physico-chemical properties of gluten. 



T. Wayland Vatjghan: Correlation of the Tertiary formations of the 

 southeastern United States, Central America and the West Indies. 



W. M. Davis: Coast survey charts and fringing reefs of the Philippine 

 Islands. 



Henry Fairfield Osborn and William K. Gregory: Recent researches 

 on the skeletal adaptations and modes of locomotion of the Sauropod 

 Dinosaurs. 



Charles D. Walcott: Some additional data on the Cambrian Trilobites. 



C. R. Van Hise: The development of Governmental regulations during 

 the world war. 



C. Hart Merriam : The big bears of North America. 



G. H. Parker: The growth of the Pribilof fur-seal herd between 1912 

 and 1917. 



Henry H. Donaldson: A comparison of the growth changes in the 

 nervous system of the rat with the corresponding changes in man. 



Robert M. Yerkes : Measuring the mental strength of an army. 



Arthur G. Webster: Some considerations on the exterior ballistics of 

 a gun of 75 miles range. 



C. G. Abbot: Periodicity in the variation of the sun. 



Edwin H. Hall: Ionization in solid metals. 



E. L. Nichols and H. L. Howes: On the types of decay of phosphor- 

 escence. 



J. P. Iddings: Biographical memoir of the late Arnold Hague. 



John M. Clarke: Biographical memoir of the late William Bullock 

 Clark. 



2. Carnegie Institution of Washington; Robert S. Wood- 

 ward, President. Year Book, No. 16. Pp. xvi, 358 ; illustrated. 



