Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
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partula in their natural settings. neces-
stating museum trips to the Society
Islands of the South Seas. as we'll as
actual experiments on live snails in the
Barnard greenhouse and laboratories,
is the basis of DR.. Champions con-
illusions He has been aided by Mrs
Florence Lowther. associate in zoology
at Barnard.
Mrs Lowther explained that the time
required for the development of one
generation of snails is four months.
The snails. being hermaphroditic. are
isolated in individual Jars, thousands of
which are kept in the laboratories.
Another in Research.
Another member Of the Barnard
faculty who will be engaged in signifi-
cant research this Summer is Prof
Raymond c. Moley. head of the Depart
mentI of Government. who Is serving as
consdltant TO Samuel Seabury in the
formulation OF the constructive aspects
of his report on the Magistrates
Courts which will probably be sub
mitted in September
In addition. Prof. Moley is working
with Gov. Roosevelt's Commission on
the Administration of Justice in New
York State. He will also be engaged ir
formulating further plans for the new
Institute Of Criminology at the Uni
versity of California. The institute
though functioning now, is still in an
experimental state. Prof. Moley having
assisted last Fall in planning its open
ing.
A study of the inheritance of various
plant characteristics, particularly shape
will occupy Prof. Edmund w. Sinnott
of the Botany Department this Sum-
mer. Prof. Sinnott, who has been
working on the problem IS years, has
gathered considerable evidence that
shape is controlled by genetic factors
entirely independent of those which
control size or any other plant char
acteristic
He has found that in squashes and
gourds shape is determined almost al
the very beginning of development
when the bit of tissue which will ulti-
mately produce the fruit is one-mil-
lionth as big as at maturity. There are
slight changes of shape during develop
ment, the fruits in some cases growing
relatively a little flatter or more elon.
gated, but these differences in develop
mental history are also found to be
inherited.
Definite Genetic Factors.
According to Prof. Sinnott, othel
work on inheritance of shape indicate!
that in other organisms shape is alst
controlled by definite genetic factor:
similar to those found by students o
heredity to control color and othel
characteristics.
Other faculty members engaged ir
research this Summer include Or. Heller
Huss Parkhurst, assistant professor o
| Dhil0Sonhv and Dr rSladvS Reichard
assistant professor of anthropology.
DR.. Parkhurst, who was awarded
Guggenheim fellowship this year, i
abroad studying the architecture o
Continental cathedrals and Ortenta
mosques. On her return she will star
work on a book on the esthetics o
Old World religious architecture. alon
the lines of her earlier work, Beauty.
DR.. Reichard, now at Ganado. Ariz
| Is engaged in IAN chronological ant
pathological study of the Navajo In
dian" She has also held a Guggen
helm fellowship, has lived for consider
able periods of time with the Naval
tribes and is the author of 1.-THE Socia
Life Of the Navajo" and Of a work OF
Navajo language. :,
Members of the Barnard faculty il
Europe this Summer include Prof
Charles Sears Baldwin of the Englisl
department, who represented Columbi
University at the celebration OF tn
four hundredth anniversary Of tn
founding of the College de France las
month; Prof. George w. Mullins, act
ing dean, who Is on q motor tri
through England and France, and mis-
Carolina M Dorado Of the Span
ish department, member Of prominen
Spanish Republics family, who ha