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No. 188 and 196, H. W. Norris, Grinnell College. Research nearly ready for publica- 
tion. Preliminary results on the cranial nerve of coecilians published in Science, New York^ 
43, 1916, (182). 
No. 189, E. J. Werber, Yale University. Experiments aiming at the origin of monsters. 
The greater part of the results are published in /. Exp. ZooL, Philadelphia, 21, Nos. 3 
and 4, 1916. Record of award closed. 
No. 190, H. S. Jennings, Johns Hopkins University. For research in variation, heredity 
and evolution. Preliminary result published in Genetics, Cambridge, 1, 1916, (407-534). 
No. 184 and 191, P. W. Bridgman, Harvard University. To assist in the study of the effect 
of high pressures on the electrical resistance of metals. The results have been published in 
these Proceedings, 3, 1917, (10-12); Boston, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts, Sci., 52, 1917, (571- 
646); and in a theoretical article soon to appear in the Physical Review. Record of award 
closed. 
No. 192, J. P. Iddings, Brinklow, Md. For a microscopic study of volcanic rocks from the 
Dutch Indies, French Oceania and the Philippines. Preliminary results are published in 
these Proceedings, 2, 1916, (531). Research being continued under Grant 203. 
No. 194, Reginald A. Daly, Harvard University. For the construction of a deep sea 
thermograph. The vital part of the instrument is practically ready for testing, and it is 
hoped that the whole will be ready for work by May 1. The clock-work has been tested 
and shows capacity for taking 250 readings with one cast of the machine overboard. The 
manuscript descriptive of the instrument, by Dr. Harry Clark, the expert designer, to be 
illustrated with several full-page plates, is nearly completed. The necessary expenditure 
has considerably exceeded the appropriation. 
No. 195, R. W. Hegner, University of Michigan. To assist a research of "Differential 
Mitoses in the Germ Cell Cycle of Dineutes Nigrior." Preliminary publication in these Pro- 
ceedings, 2, 1916, (356-360). 
No. 197, Gregory P. Baxter, Harvard University. "The Preparation of Pure Anhydrous 
Zinc Chloride and its Analysis by Electrolysis" are under way and will probably be com- 
pleted before the end of the college year. 
No. 198, Louis T. More, University of Cincinnati. Preliminary results are published 
in the Physical Review, Ithaca, Ser. 2, 9, 1917, (198-204), by J. S. Allen and L. M. 
Alexander, "On the Effect of Previous Filtering upon the Absorption of High Frequency 
X-Rays." The research continues. 
No. 199, Franklin P. Reagan, Princeton University. The partial results are published 
in the Anatomical Record, Feb., 1917, under the title "Anterior Haematopoedis in Teleost 
Embryos Under Continual Observation," by F. P. Reagan, E. E. MacMorland, and Stuart 
Mudd. 
During the year the Directors unanimously voted to cancel the rule hereto- 
fore effective for grants from the Bache Fund, which stated "No appropriation 
mil be made to assist any investigation begun or conducted under any national 
or state government, either wholly or in part." The cash income balance of 
the fund on April 2, 1917, was $846.30; but there are outstanding grants, 
not yet paid, amounting to $2050. On three of these grants, amounting to 
$1600, the recipients of which live in foreign countries, it seems to be impos- 
sible to make payments until the end of the war. 
A report was received from the Trustees of the Watson Fund, signed by Ed- 
vidn B. Frost (Chairman), W. L. Elkins, and G. C. Comstock stating that 
grants Nos. 13-14 (as announced below, p. 398) were recommended, and that 
the available income of the Watson Fund in April 1, 1917, was $1213.65. 
Reports on previous grants were as follows: 
