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REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
L. J. Beiggs, President of the Philosophical Society of Washington: A new method of 
determining gravity at sea. 
C. Schuchert: The problem of continental fracturing and diastrophism in Oceanica. 
J, P. Iddings : Petrological problems in the Pacific. 
G. W. LiTTLEHALES: Hydrographic Engineer United States Hydrographic Office: The 
extent of knowledge of the oceanography of the Pacific. 
C. F. Marvin, Chief of the United States Weather Bureau: Marine meteorology and 
the general circulation of the atmosphere. 
Wm. H. Dall: On the distribution of Pacific invertebrates. 
H. A. PiLSBURY, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: Land moUusca of the 
Pacific. 
W. G. Farlow: Marine algae of the Pacific. 
D. H. Campbell: Problems of the Pacific floras. 
J. W. Fewkes: The Pacific as a field for anthropological investigation. 
REGULAR PROGRAM 
S. J. Meltzer: On permeability of endothelia. 
I. S. Kleiner and S. J. Meltzer: The influence of morphin upon the ehmination of 
intraveneously injected dextrose. 
Jacques Loeb: The sex of a parthenogenetic frog. 
Edmund B. Wilson: The distribution of the chondrisomes to the spermatozoa in 
scorpions. 
Arthur Keith (introduced by George F. Becker); A new form of metamorphism. 
J. P. Iddings and E. W. Morley: Contributions to the Petrology of Japan, Philippine 
Islands and the Dutch Indies. 
Charles R. Stockard, Professor of Anatomy, Cornell University Medical College: 
Hereditary transmission of defects resulting from alcoholism. 
W. B. Cannon: Recent observations on the activity of some glands of internal secretion. 
H. H. Donaldson: Studies in the water content of the nervous system. 
George E. Hale: Some recent results of solar research. 
Charles E. St. John (introduced by G. E. Hale): An investigation of the suggested 
mutual repulsion of Fraunhofer lines. 
Arthur S. King (introduced by G. E. Hale) : Anomalous dispersion phenomena in elec- 
tric furnace spectra, 
Walter S. Adams (introduced by G. E. Hale): Illustrations of the new spectroscopic 
method of measuring stellar distances. 
Harlow Shapley (introduced by G. E. Hale) : Some results with the new 10-inch photo- 
graphic telescope. 
C. G. Abbot and L. B. Aldrich: The pyranometer, an instrument for the measurement 
of sky radiation. 
G. C. Comstock: Invisible companions of binary stars. 
Edwin H. Hall: Theory of electric conduction in metals. 
F. R. Moulton: The evolution of the stars. 
A. O. Leuschner, Watson Medallist: The minor planets discovered by James C.Watson. 
Wm. H. Dall: Biography of Professor Theodore Nicholas Gill (by title). 
W. W. Campbell: Biography of Professor Edward Singleton Holden (by title). 
W. W. Campbell: Biography of Professor Simon Newcomb (by title). 
Fielding H. Garrison: Biography of John Shaw Billings (by title). 
Charles R. Van Hise: Report of the work of the committee upon the Panama Canal 
slides. 
H. Fielding Reid: The mechanics of the Panama slides. 
Theodore Lyman, Director Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Harvard University: The 
present state of knowledge of the extreme ultra violet. 
