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REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
Three public scientific sessions were held on April 19 and 20 at which the 
following papers were presented:- 
Thomas H. Morgan: Localization of the hereditary material in germ cells. 
Jacques Loeb: Stimulation of growth. 
Lafayette B. Mendel: Specific chemical aspects of growth. 
Eugene F. Du Bois, Medical Director, Russell Sage Institute of Pathology (by invi- 
tation of the Program Committee) : Basal metabolism during the period of growth. 
1. S. Kleiner and S. J. Meltzer: Retention in the circulation of injected dextrose in 
depancreatized animals and the effect of an intravenous injection of an emulsion of pancreas 
upon this retention. 
Joel Stebbins, Draper Medallist: The electrical photometry of stars. 
George E. Hale: A vortex hypothesis of sun spots. 
Edwin B. Frost: The spectroscopic binary, Mu Orionis. 
Robert W. Wood: One-dimensional gases and the experimental determination of the 
law of reflection for gas molecules. 
Robert W. Wood: The relations between resonance and absorption spectra. 
Edward L. Nichols and H. L. Howes: On the polarized fluorescence of ammonio-uranyl 
chloride. 
Robert A. Millikan (by invitation of the Program Committee) : Atomism in modem 
physics. 
William Morris Davis: Problems associated with the origin of coral reefs, suggested 
by a Shaler Memorial study of the reefs of Fiji, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, New Heb- 
rides, Queensland, and the Society Islands, in 1914. 
F. W. Clarke: Inorganic constituents of marine invertebrates. 
Henry Fairfield Osborn and J. Howard McGregor: Human races of the Old Stone 
Age of Europe, the geologic time of their appearance, their racial and anatomical characters. 
Charles A. Davis, Geologist, Bureau of Mines (by invitation of the Program Committee) : 
On the fossil algae of the petroleum-yielding shales of the Green River Formation. 
Nathaniel L. Britton: The forests of Porto Rico. 
J. Walter Fewkes: Pictures on prehistoric pottery from the Mimbres Valley in New 
Mexico and their relation to those of Casas Grandes. 
Charles B. Davenport: Inheritance of temperament. 
Charles B. Davenport: Inheritance of Huntington's chorea. 
AWARD OF THE HENRY DRAPER MEDAL 
At the Annual Dinner of the Academy held at the Hotel Raleigh on April 
20, 1915, the Henry Draper Medal was awarded to Joel Stebbins, of the 
University of Illinois, in recognition of his work on the Application of the 
Selenium Cell to Stellar Photometry. 
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 trust funds 
of the Academy. 
