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VOLUME 5 
MAY, 1919 
NUMBER 5 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
National Academy 
OF Sciences 
OF THE 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 
EDITORIAL BOARD 
Raymond Pea r l, Chairman 
C. G. Abbot, Eomt Secretary 
Edwin B. Wilson, Managing Editor 
George E. Hale, Foreign Secretary 
J. M. Clarke 
H. H. Donaldson 
E. B. Frost 
R. A. Harper 
LuDViG Hektoen 
H. S. Jennings 
Jacques Loeb 
Graham Lusk 
A. G. Mayor 
R. A. Millikan 
E. h. ;^^ooRE 
A, A. NoYES 
W. A. NOYES 
E. L. Thorndike 
W. M. Wheeler 
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Editorial Office: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 
Home Office of the Academy: Washington, D. C. 
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