Evening star., 1937-04-25
[EAD|NCSC|ENCE
GROUPS TO MEET
HERE THIS WEEK
important Announcements
Due to Be Made at Acad.
emy Session.
'HEMOGLOBIN ROMANCE
TOPIC OF PUBLIC TALK
Meteorological, Geographical,
Physical and Radio Engineering
Sessions Also Planned.

Five national scientific societies will
hold their annual meetings here this
week, bringing to Washington some Of
the most notable scientists in the
United States.
or first Importance is the meeting
OF the National Academy of Sciences,
the so-called senate" of American
science, starting Monday and contin-
ulng through the annual election Of
members Wednesday. Important an
nouncements are expected in fields
ranging from cosmic radiation to tho
personality" Of American cities.
The open meetings at the National
Academy Building tomorrow morning
will be devoted to the biological SCI
ences. Experiments on the effects on
the body of the newly discovered
heavy water" will be reported by DR..
Henry Gray Barbour of Yale Doctors
Howard w. Haggard and Leon A.
Greenberg of Yale will tell of expert
ments on the effects of alcohol on the
system as Influenced by such factors
as the amount of sugar in the blood.
These are among the first scientifcal-
ly conducted experiments to explain
the diverse effects Of various amounts
Of alcohol under different conditions.
Possibility of reinfection with infan-
tile paralysis will be discussed by DR..
Simon Flener of the Rockefeller
Institute
Public Lecture Tomorrow.
Tomorrow afternoon will be de-
voted to miscellaneous papers, includ-
ing several on the most recent ad-
Vances in higher mathematics. To-
morrow evening, there will be a pub
lie lecture by DR.. G. H. Whipple OF
the University of Rochester on the
Romance of Hemoglobin." Reports
of the latest studies on cosmic ray dis
tribution will be presented Tuesday
by DR.. Robert A. Millikan of the Cali
fornia Institute of Technology. M. A.
Tuve, l.. R. Hafstad and N. P. Hevden-
burg of the Terrestrial Magnetism
Laboratory Of the Carnegie Institution
o. Washington will report on the pres
ent progress of their experiments on
the nuclear force within atoms, or
supergravity, the discovery of which
was announced last Fall. This force.
billions OF times that of gravity, is
the force that holds all things to-
gether, without which there could be
| nothing in the universe more COM
plex than hydrogen gas, simplest and
most primitive of the elements. Her
bert E. Ives, Bell Telephone Co. phys
lcSt and pioneer in television, will
present a paper on the measurement
OF light signals on moving bodies
which makes possible a clearer UNDER
standing of some of the most difficult
problems of relatively
| On Wednesday will take place at
the Weather Bureau the annual
/ Spring meeting of the American
Meteorological Society. Among the
papers scheduled are several dealing
with the newly-developed methods of
air mass analysis, which are vastly
improving the accuracy of weather
forecasts. The much-mooted ques-
ton as to whether there has been an
actual change in the American eli.
mate will be discussed, with statistical
analysis, by Joseph B. Kincer, chief
of the Weather Bureaus Division OF
Climatology.
Geophysical Union Meeting.
On Wednesday will start the an
nual meeting of the GeophysicaI
Union at which reports will be re-
ceived on the latest findings on the
sciences of the earth, the progress
of mapping the United States and
Canada, the advances and declines of
glaciers during the year. and the map
ping of the contours of the great ocean
beds. These meetings will continue
through Friday afternoon, ending with
a general assembly devoted to prob
lens of the deep interior of the
globe.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday will
take place the meetings of the Amer
ican Physical Society and the In
stitute of Radio Engineers at the
Bureau of Standards and the Ma.
tional Research Council.