The Washington herald., 1915-04-18
MEN OF SCIENCE
TO GATHER HERE
National Academy Will Hold
Annual Meeting in Wash
ington This Week.
ADVISERS TO UNCLE SAM
Sayants Coming from All Parts OF
Country-Twenty Members
Reside in Capital.


,,r,on from Monday, April 10, TO
"wednesday. April q, inclusive. inc
ACADEMY. founded i'll 1865 by act "i
Congress. now has 1875 active ineh"eiH >.
of whom twenty are reS'cei''
Washington Eminent representative"
of all branches of science from every
mart of the country viii assemble d.
In. meeting. The official tunctioh u
tho academy is to act as sclentlnc
.dyiser ro the government At rari-
org times the academy has reported
70 the government on subjec,s rang
ing from the prevention of counter
feiting and tests of the purity Oh
whisky 20 the search Coy the North
Magnetic Pole and the establishment
of an International Bureau OF We:ghts
and Measures.
The meetings. to be held in tho au,
ditorium Of the National Museum. Will
he open to the public and most OF
them will be illustrated with lantern
slides. Some subjects to be treated
will be understandable only by those
familiar with the methods ana IAN
ruase of science, but others will Interest
laymen.
Prof. Morgan to Lecture.
The public sessions will begin at
go n. m on Monday, the papers Tor
this afternoon having to do chleny
with problems relating to life. Inc
first will be a paper by Prof. Thomas
H. Morgan, of Columbia UNIVERSITY
New York, on the 'Localization OF the
hereditary Material in Germ Gems.
IT will be followed by three half-hour
papers dealing with problems of nu-
triton and growth in animals by Prof.
Jacoues Loeb of the Rockefeller In
stitute, New York. Prof. Lafayette D.
Mendel, of Yale University, and Prof..
Eugene +. Du Bots, medical director
of the Russell Sage Institute OF Pa
tholoCy, New York. The final paper OF
the Monday afternoon session, by Drs-
l. s Klcincr and S. ]. Meltzer, OF the
Rockefeller Institute. has the alarm
ing title Retention in the Circulation
of Injected Dextrose in Depancreatized
Animals and the Effect of an lntra'
ycnous Injection of an Emulsion OF
Pancreas Upon This Retention.
Monday night at o'clock in the au-
ditorium of the museum, Prof THOMAS
Chrowdcr Chamberlin, of the UniVer-
sity of Chicago, will give the first part
of an illustrated address on The
Evolution of the Earth" After this
lecture there will be an informal gath
ering in the art gallery of the mu-
scum, to which all members of the
scientific societies of Washington,
with ladies. are invited.
Astronomical and Physical.
On Tuesday the presentation of pa
pers will begin at 10 a. m. and con-
linue to about 1890 p m. The program
for that morning is astronomical and
physical. An illustrated address Will
be given by Prof Joel Stebbins, of the
University of Illinois. on The Elec-
trical Photometry of Stars" Prof.
Stebbins has devised methods whereby
he can measure the relative amount
of light received from each star with
a delicacy and accuracy never before
attained DR.. George Z. Hale. of the
Solar Observatory, Pasadena, Cal. will
present "A Vortex Hypothesis of Sun
Spots" He will show that sun spots
, may be explained as worthless or whirl-
pools in the gaseous material of the
sun. DR.. Edwin B. Frost, Of the Yerkes
Observatory, Wisconsin,, will briefly
describe a double star in the constel-
laton of Orion. He will be followed
by Prof. Robert W. Wood, of Johns
Hopkins University, with papers on
the behavior of molecules in gases and
on certain relations between sound and
light. Prof. Edward l.. Nichols. of
Cornell University, and Mr.. II. l..
IIowes will present a paper on the
nuoresccnce of ammonia -uranyl
chloride The morning session will be
rIOsed with a paper entitled Atom
ism in Modern Physics by Prof. r.
\. Millikan, of the University of Chi
CaGo.
To Discuss Coral Reefs.
In the afternoon, beginning at $50.
l'rof. William Morris Davis, of Har-
ward University. will lecture on Prob
lens Associated with the Origin of
Coral Reefs" Prof. Davis has been
carrying out extensive studies in the
Pacific. brief paper by Prof F. w.
Clarke. of the Geological Survey, on
the Inorganic Constituents of Marine
Invertebrates will show by chemical
analysis that other substances than
carbonate of lime enter into the shells
and hard parts of some marine ami
mails. Mr.. Roy L. Moody will follow
with short paper on the animals of
tho carboniferous. or first collaborating
period, of America. a paper entitled
Human Races of the Old Stone Age
of Europe, the Geologic Time of Their
Appearance, their Racial and Anatom-
iCal Characters" will be presented by
DR.. Henry Fairfield Osborn and Dr.
!. Howard McGregor.
Charles a. Davis. of the Bureau of
Mines. will give an illustrated paper
on The Fossil AIgae Of the Petro-
lcum-yielding Shales of the Green
River Formation" This paper will be
followed by an address on the For
csts of Porto Rico" by DR. Nathaniel
J.. Britton, of the New York Botanical
Gardens. DIR. J. Walter Fewkes. of
the Bureau of American EthnoloEy.
Will speak on Pictures on Prehistoric
Pottery from the Mimbres Valley, New
Mexico. and Their Relation to Those
of Casas Grandes"
Members Will Dine.
The annual dinner of the members
OF the academy and their guests and
the presentation of the Draper Medal
VIII be held in the oak room of the
Raleigh Hotel at s o'clock on Tuesday
evening.
On Wednesday the public session
VIII begin at 2:i5 p. m, with an illus
trated lecture on THE Fur-seal Herd
of the Probilof Islands" by Prof.
George II. Parker. of Harvard Univer-
sity.
At p. m. Prof Chamberlain will
present the concluding part of his
lecture on The Evolution of the
Earth"
The National Academy of Sciences
has recently enlarged its sphere Of
activity by the publication of a
monthly scientific journal, the pro
ceedings" of the Academy. Plans are
being considered also whereby the
academy, by the erection of n build-
ing OF Its own in this city, NAV en-
ter more intimately into the scien-
tifc life of Washington