Miscellaneous Intelligence. 135 



Director of the Lick Observatory ; tbe subject of these was 

 " Stellar Evolution, and the Formation of the Earth." 

 The following is a list of papers presented : 



W. W. Campbell : On the radial velocities of nebulae. 



Hebkr D. Curtis : Preliminary note on nebular proper motions. 



E. A. Millikan : The coefficient of slip in gases and its relation to the 

 nature of the impact between a molecule of a gas and the surface of a solid 

 or liquid. 



W. D. Harkins and E. C. Humphrey : The capillary and electrical forces 

 at the interface between two liquids. 



Herbert N. McCoy : The solubilities of radium compounds as indicated 

 by the solubilities of analogous compounds of calcium, strontium, and 

 barium. 



L. A. Bauer : Present status of the general magnetic survey of the globe. 



Charles J. Chamberlain : A phylogenetic study of cycads. 



C M. Child : A dynamic conception of the organic individual. 



S. W. Williston : The American land vertebrate fauna and its relations. 



A J. Carlson : Some new observations on the physiology of the stomach 

 in man. 



Leonard E. Dickson : Eecent progress in the theories of modular and 

 formal invariants. 



Henry S. White : The synthesis of triad systems A t in t elements in par- 

 ticular for t = 31. 



E. J. Wilczynski : Conjugate systems of space curves with equal Laplace- 

 Darboux invariants. 



Eliakim H. Moore : On the integration by successive approximations of 

 the ordinary differential equation of the first order in general analysis. 



Edwin B. Frost : An interesting stellar system. 



George E. Hale : The direction of rotation of solar storms. 



A. A. Michelson : Behavior of metals and other substances near the rup- 

 ture point. 



C. W. Balke and George W. Sears : The atomic weight of tantalum. 



E. W. "Washburn : Our systematic knowledge of the properties and behav- 

 ior of solutions of non-electrolytes. 



T. C. Chamberlin : The fundamental segmentation of the earth. 



William Trelease : Phoradendron. 



Charles E. Allen : Development of the male germ cells of polytrichum. 



C. T. Knipp : Experimental data on the stability of positive and negative 

 ions. 



S. W. Parr : The development of an acid-resisting alloy for a bomb 

 calorimeter. 



W. L. Tower : Experimental production of a new ordinal character. 



G. A. Miller : The ^-subgroup of a group of finite order.' 



E. E. Barnard : Explanation of certain phenomena of the tail of comet 

 Morehouse (III, 1908). 



Philip Fox : The rotation period of the sun. 



J. C. Kapteyn and W. S. Adams : On the relations between the proper 

 motions and the radial velocities of the stars of the spectral types, F. G. K. 

 and M. 



S. B. Nicholson : Discovery of a ninth satellite of Jupiter. 



Frank B. Lillie : The fertilizing power of sperm dilutions. 



Gilbert Ames Bliss : A generalization of a theorem of Gauss concerning 

 geodesic triangles. 



F. R. Moulton : An extension of the process of successive approximations 

 for the solution of differential equations. 



Julius Stieglitz : Molecular rearrangements of triphenylmethyl deriva- 

 tives. 



William Crocker and J. F. Groves: Methods of determining the life- 

 duration of seeds. 



Edwin 0. Jordan : Variation in bacteria. 



Shiro Tashiro : On the nature of nerve impulse. 



