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REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
No. 195, R. W. Hegner, University of Michigan, $160. For assistance in the study of 
the history of the germ cells, especially in hermaphrodite animals, in order to determine the 
visible changes that take place in their differentiation and the causes of these changes. 
(Supplementary to grant No. 185). 
GRANT FROM THE J. LAWRENCE SMITH FUND 
No. 6, S. A. Mitchell, University of Virginia, University, Va., $500. For aid in secur- 
ing observations of paths and of radiants of meteors and in computing orbits where observa- 
tions are sufficient. 
GRANT FROM THE WOLCOTT GIBBS FUND 
No. 6, Gregory P. Baxter, Harvard University, $300. To provide apparatus, especially 
of platinum and quartz, and materials for his researches on atomic weights and changes of 
volume during solution. 
The following additional grants were authorized by the Academy at the 
business sessions of April 17-19, 1916. 
GRANT FROM THE HENRY DRAPER FUND 
Philip Fox, Dearborn University, Northwestern University, $250. To be applied 
towards the cost of a machine for measuring astronomical photogra^)hs. 
GRANTS FROM THE WATSON FUND 
No. 12, Herbert C. Wilson, Goodsell Observatory, $300. For measurements of the 
position of asteroids on photographs already taken. 
No. 13, John A. Miller, Sproul Observatory, Swarthmore College, $500. For meas- 
uring plates already taken for the determination of stellar parallaxes. (Supplementary to 
grant No. 10.) 
GRANTS FROM THE BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD FUND 
S. D. TowNLEY, Lick Observatory, $200. For observing variable stars. 
R. W. Wood, Johns Hopkins University, $200. For apparatus for photographing 
celestial bodies with monochromatic light. 
A. Van Maanen, Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, $100. For clerical assistance in 
the reduction of places of certain propermotion stars. 
Edwin B. Frost, Yerkes Observatory, $640. For a measuring machine for measuring 
parallax plates. 
