REPORT OF THE AUTUMN MEETING 
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Raymond Pearl, Maine Agricultural Experiment Station: Some effects of the con- 
tinued administration of alcohol to the domestic fowl, with special reference to the progeny. 
Alfred G. Mayer, Marine Laboratory, Carnegie Institution: Further studies of nerve 
conduction. 
E. G. CoNKLiN, Princeton University: The share of egg and sperm in heredity. 
Lafayette B. Mendel and S. E. Judson, Yale University: Some inter-relations be- 
tween diet, growth, and the chemical composition of the body. 
Charles P. Olivier, University of Virginia (read by E. W. Morley) : The meteor system 
of Pons-Winnecke's comet. 129 parabolic orbits of meteor streams. 
Alessandro Fabbri (introduced by A. G. Mayer): Micro-cinematographs of marine 
and freshwater organism.s. 
A. G. Webster, Clark University:* Practical tests of a new phono trope. 
Edward S. Morse, Salem, Mass:* Protoconch of Solemya. 
Jacques Loeb, Rockefeller Institute:* Diffusion and secretion. 
Henry L. Abbot, Cambridge, Mass:* Hydrology of the Isthmus of Panama. 
John M. Clark, State Museum, Albany :*The Strand and the Undertow. 
W. Lindgren, Mass. Inst, of Tech:, *Notes on the deposition of quartz, chalcedony, 
and opal. 
W. M. Davis, Harvard University :*Sublacustrine glacial erosion in Montana, 
H. F. Osborn, American Museum of Natural History: *The tyrant (Tyrannosaurus) 
and the ostrich (Struthiomimus) dinosaur. The relation of Newton's and Darwin's laws 
to the fundamental biologic law. 
Edwin H. Hall, Harvard University: Electric conduction in metals. 
Edward B. Rosa, National Bureau of Standards: The silver voltameter as an inter- 
national standard. 
R. W. Wood, Johns Hopkins University: One-dimensional gases and the reflection of 
molecules. Series in resonance spectra. 
Elihu Thomson, Swampscott, Mass.: Inferences concerning auroras. 
A. A. Michelson, University of Chicago: Report of progress in experiments for measur- 
ing the rigidity of the earth. The laws of elastico-viscous flow. 
C. G. Abbot, Smithsonian Institution: On the preservation of knowedge. 
Franz Boas, Columbia University: Further evidence regarding the instability of human 
types. 
Ross G. Harrison, Yale University: Transplantation of limbs. 
Chas. B. Davenport, Station for Experimental Evolution, Carnegie Institution: Hered- 
ity of stature. 
F. R, MouLTON, Chicago University: *0n analytic functions of infinitely many variables. 
Henry S. White, Vassar College, F. N. Cole and Louise D. Cummings:* Enumeration 
of all triad systems on fifteen elements. 
William E. Story, Clark University: *Some variable 3-term scales of relation. 
Edw. L. Nichols, Cornell University: *New data on the phosphorescence of certain 
sulphides. 
G. P. Baxter and H. W. Starkweather, Harvard University: *A revision of the atomic 
weight of tin. 
T. W. Richards and H. S. Davis, Harvard University: *Improvements in calorimetric 
combustion. 
T. W. Richards and C. Wadsworth, 3d, Harvard University: *Further study of the 
atomic weight of lead of radioactive origin. 
Gilbert N. Lewis, University of California. *Chemical affinity. 
Wm. Trelease, University of Illinois: *The American oaks. 
H. S. Jennings, Johns Hopkins University: *The numerical results of diverse systems 
of breeding, with relation to two pairs of factors, linked or independent. 
W. R. Miles, Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory, Boston (introduced by F. G. Benedict): 
*Some psycho-physiological processes as affected by alcohol. 
