610 Scientific Intelligence. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. The National Academy of Sciences. — The annual spring 

 meeting of the National Academy was held in Washington on 

 April 19 to 21; a large number of members were in attendance. 

 The following gentlemen were elected to membership: Henry 

 Seely White, of Vassar College; Charles Greeley Abbot, of the 

 Astrophysical Observatory, Smithsonian Institution ; Robert 

 Andrews Millikan, of the University of Chicago; Alexander 

 Smith, of Columbia University; Samuel Wendell Williston, of 

 the University of Chicago; William Ernest Castle, of Harvard 

 University; Frank Rattray Lillie, of the University of Chicago; 

 Graham Lusk, of Cornell University Medical College, New York 

 City; Victor Clarence Vaughan, of the University of Michigan; 

 Granville Stanley Hall, of Clark University. 



The list of papers presented is as follows: 



Thomas H. Morgan: Localization of the hereditary material in germ cells. 



Jacques Loeb: Stimulation of growth. 



L. B. Mendel: Specific chemical aspects of growth. 



Eugene F. Du Bois: Basal metabolism during the period of growth. 



I. S. Kleiner and S. J. Meltzer: Eetention in the circulation of injected 

 dextrose in depancreatized animals and the effect of an intravenous injection 

 of an emulsion of pancreas upon this retention. 



Joel Stebbins: The electrical photometry of stars. 



George E. Hale* A vortex hypothesis of sun spots. 



Edwin B. Frost: The spectroscopic binary, fi Orionis. 



Robert W. Wood: One-dimensional gases and the experimental determi- 

 nation of the law of reflection for gas molecules. The relations between 

 resonance and absorption spectra. 



Edward L. Nichols and H. L. Howes: On the polarized fluorescence of 

 ammonio-uranyl chloride. 



Robert A. Millikan: Atomism in modern physics. 



William Morris Davis: Problems associated with the origin of coral 

 reefs; suggested by a Shaler Memorial Study of the reefs of Fiji, New Cale- 

 donia, Loyalty Islands, New Hebrides, Queensland and the Society Islands, 

 in 1914. 



F. W. Clarke: Inorganic constituents of marine invertebrates. 



Roy L. Moodie: Amphibia and Reptilia of the American Carboniferous. 



H. F. Osborn and J. H. McGregor: Human races of the Old Stone Age 

 of Europe, the geologic time of their appearance, their racial and anatom- 

 ical characters. 



Charles A. Davis: On the fossil Algae of the petroleum-yielding shales 

 of the Green River Formation. 



Nathaniel L. Britton: The Forests of Porto Rico. 



J. Walter Fewkes: Pictures on prehistoric pottery from the Mimbres 

 valley in New Mexico and their relation to those of Casa Grande. 



Charles B. Davenport: Inheritance of temperament. Inheritance of 

 Huntington's chorea. 



The second of the series of lectures, two in number, on the 

 William Ellery Hale foundation, were delivered by Professor T. C. 

 Chamberlin of the University of Chicago upon the subject: 

 "The Evolution of the Earth." A lecture was also given by 

 George W. Parker, official representative of the Academy, upon 



