RESEARCH GRANTS FROM TRUST FUNDS 
743 
It is possible that long fiber cotton might be developed that would answer 
the purpose. 
We must become independent in all lines affecting our military aviation. 
Today we depend entirely upon Ireland and England for our linen, and the 
supply is becoming very low in this country. 
(h) Aviator's clothing. Much is still to be done in devising non-inflamma- 
ble and protective clothing for aviators. This question is intimately con- 
nected with personal armor and safety in case of fall. 
(i) Ground-speed indicator. An instrument which would measure the 
actual speed of an aircraft over the ground would be useful in the operation 
of military machines. 
4. Physics of the Air. — A number of physical properties of air, important 
in the problems of avaiation, were also discussed. 
RESEARCH GRANTS FROM THE TRUST FUNDS 
OF THE ACADEMY 
Since the last report, these Proceedings 2, 307, the following grants for 
the promotion of research have been made from the Trust Funds of the 
Academy. 
GRANTS FROM THE BACHE FUND 
No. 196, H. N. NoRRis, $100. For assistance in making numerous preliminary sketches 
and drawings, involved in the plotting from serial sections, the immediate work to be carried 
on with Cryptobranchus material. An investigation of the cranial nerves of the Amphibia, 
involving first, an analysis of the nerve components of representative and typical Modela, 
on the plan followed in the writer's papers on the cranial nerves of Amphinnea and Siren; 
second, a review of the nerve component in the Anura. Finally a monograph on the cranial 
nerves of the Amphibia as a whole. 
No. 197, G. P. Baxter, Harvard University, $300. For the purchase of platinum and 
quartz apparatus, instruments of precision, special glass apparatus and glass blowing, and 
special chemicals for the determination of atomic weights; namely, of arsenic and iodine, 
by iodimetric comparison of arsenic trioxide with iodine and iodine pentoxide, and of various 
metals by electrolysis of weighed amounts of salts, and by coulometric comparison. 
No. 198, L. T. More, University of Cincinnati, $500. For the purchase of a high voltage 
(200,000 volts), large current (10 kilowatt) generator of the transformer synchronous com- 
mutator type, to examine the region of the radiation spectrum between the hardest known 
X-rays and the X-rays of radium and the characteristic K radiation and its absorption by 
various metals. 
No. 199, F. P. Reagan, $100. For an intensive study of haematopolsis in teleost em- 
bryos involving continual observation. 
No. 200, H. W. NoRRis, Grinnell College, $250. For an investigation of the cranial nerve 
components of the common dogfish, squales, acanthias; an analysis of the cranial ganglia 
and the peripheral distribution of the component fibers. 
No. 201, A. F. Shull, $400. To discover the causes of the changes in the life cycles of 
rotifers, aphids, and thrips, with special reference to the determination of sex; also related 
cyclical phenomena in the aphids, primarily the sporadic production of wings. 
