16 BACHE FUND: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Proc. N. A. S. 
BACHE FUND: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
Dr. Hkbbr D. Curtis has been elected a member of the Board of 
Directors of the Bachh Fund of the National Academy of Sciences in 
place of Dr. B. B. Frost resigned. The Board is at present constituted 
as follows: Messrs. A. G. Wkbster, Clark University, Worcester, Massa- 
chusetts, He:ber D. Curtis, Allegheny Observatory, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- 
vania, and Ross G. Harrison, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. 
Applications for grants will be considered semi-annually and should be 
filed with the Board not later than April first or October first of each year. 
The following grants have been recently made: 
H. NoRT, Gouda, Holland, $200. For counting the stars on the Franklin-Adams 
Charts. 
H. S. Jennings, Johns Hopkins University, $300. For a study of the cytology of 
the Rhizopods with relation to the genetics and development of these organisms. 
H. M. Evans, University of California, $500. For the investigation of the oestrous- 
cycle in the rabbit and cat. 
Carl Hartman, University of Texas, $500. For the study of the oestrous cycle of 
the opossum. 
. William Bowie, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, $250. For the work of the 
Ukiah Latitude Station. 
