Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-23
NATIONAL ACADEMY
OF SCIENCES OPENS
FARLEY TOMORROW
Research Results From All
Fields to Be Presented at
Annual Meeting.
LEADING INVESTIGATORS
SCHEDULED IN PROGRAM
Physicists and Astronomers and
Biologists to Form Separate
Groups on First Day.

The annual meetings Of the National
Academy of Sciences. the so-called
Senate Of American Science" will
start at the academy building here to-
morrow with the presentation of re-
search results ranging over the whole
field of science from Impeachment
sional mathematics to the teaching of
children
Some of the foremost figures in the
scientific world will take part in the
two-day program. Tomorrow the
meeting will be divided between two
groups, the physicists and astronomers
and the biologists.
Among the former DR.. Charles G..
Abbott, secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution, will present the most re-
cent advances in the direction of long
range weather forecasting from the
study of solar radiation, and DIR. Har-
low Shapley, professor of astronomy
at Harvard, will present conclusions
on the density of matter in the great
star galaxies that make up the uni
verse.
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Dr. Dayton c. Miller of the Case
School of Cleveland will tell of his
recent work to demonstrate the ex-
pervading creation through which the
solar system moves. Dr. Miller's paper
on the absolute motion of the solar
system and the orbital motion of the
earth determined by the ether drift
experiment is expected to prove the
latest chapter on the old controversy
which started with the famous Michel
son-Morley experiment 80 years ago,
among the results of which have been
the Einstein, De Sitter and LIE Maitre
concepts of a hyperdimensional uni
verse.
Although the late DR.. A. A. Nicholson
with the utmost refinements of his
technique in repeated experiments never
was able to demonstrate an ether drift,
DR.. Miller for some time has insisted
that such a drift. determined by the
retardation of light, can be demon
strated.
A contribution to the cancer problem
will be announced for the first time
by DR.. Carl Voegtlin, head of the de-
partment of pharmacology of the
National Institute Of Health, in paper
on the action of the parenteral admin
istration of sugars on the hydrogenion
concentration of normal and malignant
tissues in living animals. At the same
session there will be papers on the
strange effects on the animal body Of
diet entirely free of magnesium and
significant effects of some recently dis
covered hormone products.
At the afternoon session. DR.. Edward
w. Washburn, chief of the division of
chemistry of the Bureau of Standards,
will tell about new kinds of water pro-
duced in his laboratory. These waters
in their pure state differ in weight from
ordinary pure water and probably in
their biological effects. Herbert E.
Ives, one of the inventors of television,
will describe recent researches on the
production of pure colors. Another
afternoon meeting will be devoted to
botany and paleontology with DR..
Walter T. Swingle of the Department
of Agriculture presenting recently dis
covered factor Of great importance i'll
plant life.
DIR. T. H. Morgan to Lecture.
There will be a public lecture tomor-
row evening by Dr. Thomas Hunt
Morgan of the California Institute of
Technology. on the bearing of genetics
on the theory of evolution. DR.. Morgan
authority on genctics.
Tuesday morning there will be a SYM
postum on cosmic rays, concerning
which much new information has been
accumulated during the past year by
expeditions all over the world. Phe-
nomena associated with cosmlc rays
will be described by DR.. w. F. G. Swami
of the Bartol Research Laboratories.
Dr. Robert L. Millikan, California In
stitue of Technology, who has been
the most prominent figure in cosmic
ray research in America, will present
papers on the intensities of these rays
in the shakespeare, the region of the
atmosphere about 10 miles above the
surface of the earth, where tempera-
ture becomes stable with altitude, and
on the penetrating power of the rays
as function of altitude.
Dr. Fred Allison of Alabama will de-
scribe his latest work with the magnetic
optical method of analysis by which, he
claims, it is possible to detect substances
which constitute billionth part Of the
material being tested and which may
have led to the discovery Of two new
elements.
The afternoon session Tuesday will
deal with recent biological discoveries.
Among the papers will be one by Prof.
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RELOCATING to the class of fallacies the
idea, shared by both the public and
the medical profession, that the So
called "acidosis" condition blamed for
so many human ills is due to "acids"
in the system. Further light will be
shed on the problem of nerve impulses
by Prof Walter B. Cannon of Harvard
University.
The afternoon sessions will be given
over to psychology and anthropology,
with recent discoveries on the phenom-
enon of learning described by DR.. Ed
ward L. Thorndike of Columbia Univer-
sity and new material on the mechan-
ism of evolution by Prof. Henry Fair
child Osborne of the New York Museum
of Natural History.
The meeting of the National Acad-
envy will be followed Thursday and Fri
day by the annual meetings Of the
American Geophysical Union and the
American Physical Society. These will
be followed by the annual meeting Of
the American Meteorological Society.
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