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REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES ON TRUST FUNDS 
A report was received from the Directors of the Bache Fund, signed by Ed- 
win B. Frost (Chairman), stating that since the annual meeting of the Academy 
in April, 1917, grants Nos. 205-209 (as announced in the Proceedings, p. 
273, below) had been made; and that reports on these and previous grants had 
been received as follows : 
No. 193, C. A. Kofoid, University of California, for assistance in securing animals in the 
Indian jungle and in their preparation for study in research on the intestinal protozoa. Mr. 
Kofoid is serving as Major in the Sanitary Corps and the work is being continued by re- 
search assistants on the material collected during Mr. Kofoid's travels. 
No. 202, W. C. Allee, Lake Forest College, Illinois. Research concluded on 'The salt 
content of natural waters in relation to rhectaxis in Asellus," Biol. Bull., Woods Hole, 32, 93-971. 
Preliminary results on first phases of investigation concerning a possible correlation between 
C0 2 production and phototaxis are completed and are in the hands of the editors of /. Exp. 
Zool., Philadelphia. Research is in progress concerning the cause of formation of aggregations 
of may-fly nymphs and other reactions, and to C0 2 production. Also effect of molting on both 
above factors; also as to effect of the cyanides on respiration and reactions to various stimuli. 
No. 203, J. P. Iddings, Brinklow, Maryland. The chemical analysis of igneous rocks 
collected in Asia and Australasia is completed and the results published in the Proceedings of 
this Academy. The work with the microscope and thin sections will continue for some 
years to come. 
No. 204, Irving W. Bailey, Bussey Institution, Harvard University, for field data for a 
study of environment upon the anatomical structure of angiosperms. Cancelled and the 
money returned to the Treasurer because it was found impracticable for Professor Bailey to go 
to Guatemala under present war conditions. 
No. 205, T. H. Goodspeed, University of California. Between 20,000 and 25,000 
measurements in the flower-size investigations on Nicotiana were made duringt he summer 
and fall of 1917. These experiments are to be concluded during the summer and results pub- 
lished thereafter. 
No. 206, Reginald A. Daly, Harvard University. The deep sea thermograph has been 
completed and a description has been published by its designer, Mr. Harry A. Clark, 
in Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard College, 61, No. 15. 
No. 209, Cecil K. Drinker, Harvard Medical School. Research still in progress. A 
paper, entitled "The factors concerned in the appearance of nucleated red blood corpuscles 
in the peripheral blood. II. Influence of procedures designed to increase the rate of blood 
flow through the blood-forming organs — hemorrhage and infusion," by Cecil K. Drinker 
Katharine R. Drinker and Henry A. Kreutzmann, was published in /. Exp. Med., 27, 383- 
397, 1918. 
The Directors have voted to transfer to capital account the sum of $2,575, 
which has been carried for a number of years as 'invested income, 'together with 
$425 of current income, so that the principal of the fund now stands at $59,000. 
An effort is being made to pay the American collaborators of the 'Nomen- 
clator Animalium Generum et Subgenerum' the amounts due them for their 
work. A grant of $1,000 was made in 1913 to Professor F. E. Schulze, of Ber- 
lin, specifically for assistance by American men of science in this undertaking 
It now seems probable that these men can soon receive their compensation. 
After providing for this liability of $1,000, the cash on hand available for grants, 
on April 15, 1918, is $10.81. 
