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4. Chas. B. Davenport: Pleredity of stature. 
5. E. C. MacDowell (introduced by Chas. B.Davenport): Parental alcoholism and 
mental ability — A comparative study of habit formation. 
6. James B. Murphy (introduced by Jacques Loeb): Role of the lymphocytes in re- 
sistance to cancer. 
7. Graham Lusk: The calorimeter as an interpreter of life processes. 
8. T. B. Osborne and Lafayette B. Mendel: The resumption of growth after failure 
to grow. 
9. W. H. Howell: Ultramicroscopic studies of the fibrin-gel. 
10. C. William Beebe (introduced by Henry Fairfield Osborn) : Origin of the flight of 
birds. 
11. Frank M. Chapman (introduced by Henry Fairfield Osborn): Ornithological survey 
of the Andies and Western Coast of South America. 
12. Douglas Houghton Campbell: Treubia. 
13. Marshall A. Howe (introduced by N. L. Britton): Fossil calcareous algae from the 
Panama Canal Zone with reference to reef-bailding algae. 
14. A. B. Stout (introduced by N. L. Britton) : Sterility in plants and its inheritance. 
15. J. N. Rose (introduced by N. L. Britton): Recent explorations in the cactus deserts 
of South America. 
16. George H. Shull (introduced hy Chas. B. Davenport): Some factors affecting the 
inheritance ratios in shepherd's purse. 
17. Herbert M. Richards (introduced by R. A. Harper): The respiratory ratio of cacti 
in relation to their acidity. 
18. R. A. Harper: Some studies in morphogenesis. 
19. Herbert S. Jennings: Can we observe organic evolution in progress? 
20. John M. Coulter: Orthogenesis in plants. 
21. Theodore W. Richards: Investigations recently conducted in the Wolcott Gibbs 
Memorial Laboratory. 
22. B. B. Boltwood: The life of radium. 
23. Alfred G. Mayer and Robert S. Woodward (by title): The biography of Alfred 
Marshall Mayer. 
24. G. C. Abbot: The solar radiation and its variability. 
25. A. G. Webster: Experiments and theory of conical horns; instruments for measure- 
ments and sound; an instrument for finding the direction of a fog-signal. 
26. Edward C. Pickering: The New Draper Catalogue. 
27. Henry Norris Russell (introduced by Edward C. Pickering): On the albedo of 
the moon and planets. 
28 George F. Becker: A possible origin for some spiral nebulae. 
29. L. A. Bauer (introduced by R. S. Woodward) : Concomitant changes in the earth's 
magnetism and solar radiation. 
30. Fred E. Wright and J. C. Hostetter (introduced by Arthur L. Day) : Experiments 
on the mean free path of gases; observations on Wood's one-dimensional gas, 
31. James Kendall (introduced by Alexander Smith) : The water correction in conductiv- 
ity determinations. 
32. Henry Fairfield Osborn: Extremes of adaptation in carnivorous dinosaurs, tyran- 
nosaurus and ornithomimus. 
33. C. K. Leith (introduced by C. R. Van Hise): The influence of certain minerals on 
the development of schists and gneisses. 
34. W.M.Davis: Glacial sculptu/e of the Mission Range. Montana. 
35. Waldemar Lindgren: Crystallization of quartz veins. 
36. George P. Merrill (introduced by Arthur L. Day): The minor constitutents of 
meteorites. 
37. E. W. Hilgard: A peculiar clay from near the City of Mexico. 
