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Robert A. Millikan: A redetermination of e and N. 
Caex L. Alsberg, Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, United States Department of Agri- 
culture: The relation of investigational work to the enforcement of the food and drugs act. 
J. Walter Fewkes: Recent explorations on the Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. 
Erwin F. Smith: Further evidence on the nature of crown gall and cancer and that can- 
cer in plants offers strong presumptive evidence both of the parasitic origin and of the essen- 
tial unity of the various forms of cancer in man and animals. 
AWARD OF MEDALS 
At the annual dinner of the Academy held at the Hotel Raleigh on April 
18, 1916, Medals for Eminence in the AppHcation of Science to the Public 
Welfare were awarded to Cleveland Abbe for distinguished public service 
in establishing and organizing the weather service of the United States, and 
to Gifford Pinchot for distinguished public service in organizing and direct- 
ing the movement for the systematic conservation of the natural resources 
of the United States; and the James Craig Watson medal was awarded to 
Armin Otto Leuschner for the skill and abiUty which he has shown in 
supervising the preparation of tables of the Watson asteroids, involving 
original methods, and leading to results of much value to celestial mechanics. 
RESEARCH GRANTS FROM THE TRUST FUNDS OF THE 
ACADEMY 
During the twelve months preceding the Annual Meeting of the Academy 
the following grants for the promotion of research were made from the trust 
funds of the Academy. 
GRANTS FROM THE BACHE FUND 
No. 188, H. W. NoRRis, Grinnell College, $100. For assistance in the analysis of the 
cranial nerves of Coecilians (Herpele and Dermophis). 
No. 189, E. J. Werber, Woods Hole, $230. For assistance in experimental studies aim- 
ing at the control of defective and monstrous development: (1) the effect of toxic products 
of metabolism on the developing teleost egg; (2) the effect of experimentally produced dis- 
eases of parental metabolism on the offspring of mammals. 
No. 190, H. S. Jennings, Johns Hopkins University, $200. For assistance in the study 
of evolution in a unicellular animal multiplying by fission: heredity, variation, racial dif- 
ferentiation in Diffiugia. 
No. 191, P. W. Bridgman, Harvard University, $500. For mechanical assistance in 
an investigation of various effects of high hydrostatic pressure, in particular the effect of 
pressure on electrical resistance of metals. (Supplementary to grant No. 184.) 
No. 192, J. P. Iddings, Washington, D. C, $1000. For apparatus and assistance in the 
microscopical and chemical investigation of igneous rocks for the purpose of extending knowl- 
edge regarding petrographical provinces and their bearings on the problem of isostasy. 
No. 193, C. A. KoEOiD, University of California, $500. For assistance in securing animals 
in the Indian jungle and in their preparation for study in research on the intestinal protozoa. 
No. 194, R. A. Daly, Harvard University, $1000. For the purchase of a thermograph of 
new design for determining temperatures in the deep sea. 
