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  Intelligence. 
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  III 
  Miscellaneous 
  Scientific 
  Intelligence. 
  

  

  1. 
  National 
  Academy 
  of 
  Sciences. 
  — 
  The 
  annual 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  

   National 
  Academy 
  was 
  held 
  at 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  in 
  

   Washington 
  on 
  April 
  16, 
  17, 
  and 
  18, 
  and 
  was 
  highly 
  successful 
  

   in 
  all 
  respects. 
  The 
  names 
  of 
  gentlemen 
  elected 
  to 
  membership 
  

   and 
  the 
  titles 
  of 
  papers 
  presented 
  are 
  given 
  below. 
  Dr. 
  William 
  

   H. 
  Welch 
  having 
  retired 
  as 
  president, 
  Dr. 
  Charles 
  D. 
  Walcott 
  

   was 
  elected 
  to 
  fill 
  this 
  office 
  for 
  a 
  term 
  of 
  six 
  years; 
  Prof. 
  A. 
  A. 
  

   Michelson 
  was 
  also 
  elected 
  Vice 
  President 
  for 
  a 
  like 
  period. 
  At 
  

   the 
  annual 
  dinner 
  of 
  the 
  Academy 
  on 
  the 
  17th, 
  the 
  Henry 
  Draper 
  

   gold 
  medal 
  was 
  presented 
  to 
  Professor 
  Michelson 
  and 
  the 
  Public 
  

   Welfare 
  medal 
  to 
  Dr. 
  S. 
  W. 
  Stratton. 
  Two 
  public 
  lectures 
  on 
  

   the 
  William 
  Ellery 
  Hale 
  foundation 
  were 
  delivered 
  by 
  Prof. 
  E. 
  G. 
  

   Conklin; 
  the 
  subject 
  of 
  these 
  lectures 
  was 
  "Methods 
  and 
  Causes 
  

   of 
  Organic 
  Evolution." 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  gentlemen 
  were 
  elected 
  to 
  membership: 
  Edward 
  

   Kasner, 
  of 
  Columbia 
  University, 
  Wallace 
  C. 
  Sabine, 
  of 
  Harvard 
  

   University, 
  Edward 
  O. 
  Ulrich, 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Geological 
  Survey, 
  

   Washington, 
  William 
  F. 
  Durand, 
  of 
  Stanford 
  University, 
  Samuel 
  

   W. 
  Stratton, 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Standards, 
  Washington, 
  Theodore 
  

   Lyman, 
  of 
  Harvard 
  University, 
  Edward 
  L. 
  Thorndike, 
  of 
  Columbia 
  

   University, 
  William 
  S. 
  Halsted, 
  of 
  the 
  Johns 
  Hopkins 
  Medical 
  

   School, 
  Baltimore. 
  

  

  The 
  titles 
  of 
  papers 
  presented 
  are 
  as 
  follows: 
  

  

  J. 
  P. 
  Iddings 
  and 
  E. 
  W. 
  Mokley 
  : 
  Eeport 
  of 
  progress 
  in 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  

   igneous 
  rocks 
  from 
  the 
  East 
  Indies 
  and 
  Islands 
  of 
  the 
  South 
  Pacific. 
  

  

  W. 
  M. 
  Davis: 
  The 
  Great 
  Barrier 
  Eeef 
  of 
  Queensland, 
  Australia. 
  

  

  Charles 
  D. 
  Walcott: 
  Searching 
  for 
  a 
  doubtful 
  geological 
  zone 
  in 
  the 
  

   Canadian 
  Rockies. 
  

  

  Arthur 
  L. 
  Day: 
  The 
  role 
  of 
  the 
  gases 
  in 
  volcanic 
  activity. 
  

  

  W. 
  A. 
  Noyes: 
  A 
  kinetic 
  hypothesis 
  to 
  explain 
  the 
  function 
  of 
  electrons 
  

   in 
  the 
  chemical 
  combination 
  of 
  atoms. 
  

  

  A.. 
  A. 
  Michelson: 
  Some 
  recent 
  work 
  in 
  physics. 
  

  

  W. 
  B. 
  Cannon: 
  Some 
  considerations 
  regarding 
  the 
  nature 
  of 
  thirst. 
  

  

  Erwin 
  F. 
  Smith: 
  On 
  resemblances 
  of 
  Crown 
  Gall 
  to 
  Cancer: 
  A 
  synopsis 
  of 
  

   work 
  done 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Department 
  of 
  Agriculture. 
  

  

  R. 
  J. 
  Anderson 
  and 
  Graham 
  Lusk: 
  The 
  influence 
  of 
  diet 
  upon 
  the 
  heat 
  

   production 
  during 
  mechanical 
  work 
  in 
  the 
  dog. 
  

  

  Jacques 
  Loeb 
  and 
  J. 
  H. 
  Northrop: 
  What 
  determines 
  the 
  natural 
  dura- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  life 
  ? 
  

  

  Simon 
  Flexner: 
  Mechanisms 
  that 
  defend 
  the 
  body 
  from 
  poliomyelilic 
  

   infection, 
  (a) 
  external 
  or 
  extranervous, 
  (b) 
  internal 
  or 
  nervous. 
  

  

  T. 
  S. 
  Githens 
  and 
  S. 
  J. 
  Meltzer: 
  The 
  difference 
  in 
  the 
  action 
  of 
  anti- 
  

   pyretics 
  according 
  to 
  the 
  species 
  of 
  animals 
  subjected 
  to 
  this 
  action, 
  the 
  

   state 
  of 
  health 
  of 
  the 
  animals, 
  the 
  height 
  of 
  their 
  normal 
  temperature 
  and 
  

   the 
  substance 
  employed. 
  

  

  Charles 
  B. 
  Davenport: 
  Heredity 
  and 
  juvenile 
  promise 
  of 
  eminent 
  naval 
  

   men. 
  

  

  Henry 
  Fairfield 
  Osborn: 
  The 
  causes 
  of 
  the 
  evolution 
  of 
  proportions 
  by 
  

   mammals. 
  

  

  W. 
  V. 
  King 
  : 
  Sporogony 
  of 
  malaria 
  parasites. 
  Photomicrographs 
  of 
  

   infected 
  anopheles. 
  

  

  