VOLUME 3 
SEPTEMBER, 1917 
NUMBER 9 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
National Academy 
OF Sciences 
OF THE 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 
EDITORML BOARD 
Raymond Pearl, Chairman 
Arthur L. Day, Home Secretary 
Edwin B. Wilson, Managing Editor 
George E. Hale, Foreign Secretary 
J. J. Abel 
J. M. Clarke 
E. G. CONKLIN 
C. B. Davenport 
H. H. Donaldson 
E. B. Frost 
R. A. Harper 
W. H. Holmes 
J. P. Iddings 
Graham Lusk 
A. G. xMayer 
R. A. MiLLIKAN 
E. H. Moore 
A. A. Noyes 
Alexander Smith 
Publication Ofice: Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore 
Editorial Office: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 
Home Office of the Academy: Washington, D. C. 
Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Baltimore, Md. .under the Act of August 24 ,1912 
