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I VOLUME 6 JANUARY, 1920 NUMBER 1 | 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
National Academy 
OF Sciences 
OF THE 
UNITED vSTATES OF AMERICA 
EDITORIAL BOARD 
Raymond P^ari., Chairman Edwin B. Wilson, Managing Editor 
C. G. Abbot, Home Secretary Georgk E. Hale, Foreign Secretary 
J. M. Clarke 
A. L. Day 
Gano Dunn 
E. B. Frost 
LuDviG Hektoen 
L. J. Henderson 
H. S. Jennings 
Jacques Loeb 
J. C. Merriam 
R. A. MiLLIKAN 
E. H. Moore 
W. A. NoYES 
W. J. V. OSTERHOUT 
E. L. Thorndike 
W. M. Wheeler 
Publication Office : Eschenbach Printing Company, Easton, Pa. 
Editorial Office : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 
Home Office of the Academy: Washington, D. C. 
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