No. 27. List of manuscript bibliographies in geology and geography. By Homer P. Little. February, 1922. Pages, 17. Price, 25 cents.

No. 28. Investment in chemical education in the United States. Compiled by Callie Hull and Clarence J. West. March, 1922. Pages, 3. Price, 15 cents.

No. 29. Distribution of fellowships and scholarships between the arts and sciences. Compiled by Callie Hull and Clarence J. West. April, 1922. Pages, 5. Price, 15

cents.

No. 30. First report of the committee on contact catalysis. By Wilder D. Bancroft, chairman, in collaboration with the other members of the committee. (In press.) No. 31. The status of "clinical" psychology. By F. L. Wells. January, 1922. Pages, 12. Price, 20 cents.

No. 32. Moments and stresses in slabs. By H. M. Westergaard and W. A. Slater. April, 1922. Pages, 124. Price, $1.

No. 33. Informational needs in science and technology. By Charles L. Reese. May, 1922. Pages, 10. Price, 20 cents.

No. 34. Indexing of scientific articles. By Gordon S. Fulcher. ́ (In press.)

No. 35. American research chemicals. First revision. By Clarence J. West. May, 1922. Pages, 37. Price, 50 cents.

No. 36. List of manuscript bibliographies in chemistry and chemical technology. By Clarence J. West. (In press.)

No. 37. Recent geographical work in Europe. By W. L. G. Joerg. (In press.) The council issued during the year the following miscellaneous publications:

Organization and members, 1921–22.

The executive committee on natural resources. By John M. Clarke, Henry S. Graves, and Barrington Moore. Reprinted from Science, N. S., volume 53, No. 1381, pages 550-552, June 17, 1921.

The obligation of the State toward scientific research. By James Rowland Angell. Reprinted from the Centennial Memorial Volume of Indiana University. July, 1921. Science and national progress. Reprinted from Scientific American Monthly, July, 1921. What do you know about diatoms? By H. P. Little. A national information service for science and technology. By Ruth Cobb.

Science and national progress. Reprinted from Scientific American Monthly, August, 1921. Balloons, helium gas, and the age of the earth. By Homer P. Little. A more definite statement of the highway research work. By W. K. Hatt. Reprinted from Automotive Industries, August 11, 1921.

The rôle of research in waste elimination. By Harrison E. Howe. From Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, August 31, 1921.

Science and national progress. Reprinted from Scientific American Monthly, October, 1921. Topographic maps: What they are, who uses them, and how. By Homer P. Little.

Preservation of natural conditions. By the Ecological Society of America. Re printed for the committee with the aid of the National Research Council. November, 1921.

A problem in the education of college students of superior ability. By George Walter Stewart. Reprinted from School and Society, November 19, 1921.

The National Research Council. By Vernon Kellogg. Reprinted from the Educational Review, volume 62, No. 5, December, 1921.

Geology as a profession. By H. P. Little. Reprinted from Science, N. S., volume 54, No. 1408, pages 619-622, December 23, 1921.

Zoological research as a career. By C. E. McClung. Reprinted from Science, N. S., volume 54, No. 1408, pages 617-619, December 23, 1921.

Research in the field of agriculture. By A. F. Woods. Reprinted from Science, January 20, 1922, volume 55, No. 1412.

Research in civil engineering as a career. By Alfred D. Flinn. Reprinted from Engineering News-Record, January 26, 1922.

Anthropology as a career. By Clark Wissler. Reprinted from the Indiana University Alumni Quarterly, January, 1922.

The research information service of the National Research Council, February, 1922. Opportunities for a research career in medical science. By George W. McCoy. Reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association, February 18, 1922, volume 78, pages 533 and 534.

The field for chemists. By Wilder D. Bancroft. Reprinted from the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, volume 14, No. 2, February, 1922.

Destruction of piling in water-front structures: Its prevention. By committee on marine piling investigations of the National Research Council, February, 1922. The explosibility of ammonium nitrate. By Charles E. Munroe, chairman committee on the investigation of the explosibility of ammonium compounds, National Research Council. Reprinted from Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, volume 26, No. 12, March 22, 1922.

Sectioning classes on the basis of ability. By C. E. Seashore. Reprinted from School and Society, April 1, 1922, volume 15, page 353. Geography as a profession. By H. P. Little.

55, No. 1423, April 7, 1922.

Reprinted from Science, volume

Psychology as a career. By C. E. Seashore. Reprinted from Science, volume 55, No. 1424, April 14, 1922.

FELLOWSHIPS.

The administration of scientific fellowships by the council has assumed very large proportions. In addition to $500,000, to be expended over a period of five years, provided by the Rockefeller Foundation as from the middle of 1919 for research fellowships in physics and chemistry, the council has now been intrusted with the administration of $500,000 more by the Rockefeller Foundation and General Education Board, acting jointly, for fellowships in medicine, and with $17,500 more from certain companies interested in chemical industry for fellowships in the relations of chemical products to agriculture.

There were on June 30, 1922, 18 fellowships in physics, 28 in chemistry, and 13 in medicine. The medical fellowships are administered, as are the fellowships in physics and chemistry, by a special board appointed by the council of men of recognized eminence in their scientific fields. The board for the medical fellowships is as follows: David L. Edsall, professor of medicine and dean of the medical school, Harvard University; Joseph Erlanger, professor of physiology, school of medicine, Washington University, St. Louis; G. Carl Huber, professor of anatomy and director of anatomic laboratory, University of Michigan; E. O. Jordan, professor of bacteriology, University of Chicago; Dean Lewis, professor of surgery, Rush Medical School, Chicago; W. G. MacCallum, professor of

pathology and bacteriology, Johns Hopkins University; Lafayette Mendel, professor of physiological chemistry, Yale University; W. W. Palmer, professor of medicine, Columbia University; and the chairman of the division of medical sciences of the National Research Council, chairman ex officio.

The board for the administration of the fellowships in physics and chemistry is as follows: Simon Flexner, chairman, director of research laboratories, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Sixty-sixth Street and Avenue A, New York City; George E. Hale, director, Mount Wilson Observatory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Pasadena, Calif.; John Johnston, Sterling professor of chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.; Elmer P. Kohler, professor of chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; R. A. Millikan, director, Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.; Augustus Trowbridge, professor of physics, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J. Ex officio: E. W. Washburn, chairman, division of chemistry and chemical technology, National Research Council; William Duane, chairman, division of physical sciences, National Research Council. Dr. W. E. Tisdale, secretary of the division of physical sciences, National Research Council, acts as executive secretary for the board.

The Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. has appropriated a sum of $10,000 for the support during the fiscal year 1922-23 of fellowships to be established under the division of biology and agriculture of the National Research Council for fundamental research in the agricultural applications of sulphur. In accepting the appropriation the National Research Council has reserved the right to publish, without restriction, the results obtained under these fellowships. The fellowships are administered by a special committee operating under the division of biology and agriculture.

A sum amounting to $2,000 annually has been made available during the 1920-21, 1921-22, and 1922-23 by Mr. Julius Rosenwald, of Chicago, for the purpose of developing scientific men among the Negro race in America. This fellowship has been awarded to Mr. E. E. Just, of Howard University, Washington, D. C.

FEDERATION OF BIOLOGICAL SOCIETIES.

An important movement to federate the American biological organizations which are of a research character and which are essentially national in scope (without destruction or constraining modification of the individual organizations) has been sponsored by the council. There are nearly a score of these national biological societies, with a total membership of over 6,000, almost wholly uncorrelated, yet the plain present tendency of work in biological science is toward a breaking down of the artificial boundaries thrown

up about each of the special fields of biology represented by these various societies. The students of genetics, for example, are equally interested in work done with plants and with animals.

To the end of developing a correlation among these societies an informal conference of representatives of the council's division of biology and agriculture and representatives of some of these leading societies and of the biological sections of the American Association for the Advancement of Science was held at Toronto in December, 1921 (at the time of the meetings of the American association and several of the biological societies), at which it was decided to hold later a formal conference. This second conference was held in the council's rooms in Washington in April, 1922. It was participated in by accredited representatives of 18 national biological societies, representatives of Sections F, G, N, and O of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and representatives of the council's division of biology and agriculture. A general agreement as to the high desirability of forming such federation of these various national agencies for the promotion of biological science was reached and an executive committee to draft a constitution and by-laws for the proposed federation appointed.

It was also agreed that perhaps the most important present special service the federation could serve was the promotion of more adequate means of publication than now exist and, especially, means of providing for a comprehensive biological abstracting journal. A special joint committee representing the division of biology and agriculture of the council on the one hand and the federation on the other was set up. This committee is to study the whole question of biological publications and report the results of its study, with recommendations for action.

CONCILIUM BIBLIOGRAPHICUM.

Representing both the council and the Rockefeller Foundation, the permanent secretary of the council made a detailed investigation in Zurich during the summer of 1921 of the status of the Concilium Bibliographicum, an organization founded and largely maintained by the activities of an American, Dr. Herbert Haviland Field, as an international institution of scientific bibliography. Because of the difficulties produced by the war and the later sudden death of Doctor Field in April, 1921, the Concilium, which had been performing a bibiliographic service of much usefulness to zoologists, anatomists, physiologists, and general biologists, found itself threatened with complete collapse. It had contracted debts for the payment of which no resources except its building, technical equipment, and stock of bibliographic cards were available. The use of these resources would have destroyed the institution.

As a result of the examination and report of the permanent secretary, the council adopted a plan for the rehabilitation of the Concilium, outlined in the report, which involved an arrangement as to control of the Concilium jointly by the council and the Swiss Society of Natural Sciences until some more widely representative international organization could take it over, and an appeal to the Rockefeller Foundation for an appropriation sufficient to clear off the outstanding obligations of the Concilium, return to the widow of Doctor Field a small part, at least, of the money advanced to the Concilium from Doctor Field's private funds, and assist in the current expenses of the institution during five years, at the end of which time it is hoped the Concilium may be self-sustaining or internationally subventioned. In conformity with the recommendations of the council the Rockefeller Foundation has appropriated to the council $85,000 to be expended under the general direction of the council for the purposes above stated. Of this money, $15,000 is to meet the obligations already incurred by the council and the remainder ($70,000) is to be devoted to current expenses through five years.

By arrangement with the Swiss Society of Natural Sciences the immediate management of the Concilium is vested in a director. working under the general control of a joint commission consisting of one member, representing the Swiss society, and one representing the council. Dr. J. Strohl, of the University of Zurich, and formerly chief technical assistant in the Concilium, has been named as director and commission representative of the Swiss society and Vernon Kellogg as commission representative of the council. A special committee of the council on Concilium Bibliographicum matters has been appointed, with the following members: Vernon Kellogg, chairman: L. R. Jones, professor of plant pathology, University of Wisconsin, R. M. Yerkes, chairman, research information service, National Research Council; and J. R. Schramm, executive secretary, division of biology and agriculture, National Research Council.

In order that this committee and its representative on the joint managing commission might have competent advice as to the desires of American biologists and librarians, who constitute one-third of all the subscribers to the bibliographic cards issued by the Concilium. concerning the future activities of the Concilium, a conference of representative American biologists and librarians was held in the council rooms on April 24, 1922.

PERSONNEL RESEARCH FEDERATION.

The Personnel Research Federation, organized as a result of conferences held in the council's rooms in November, 1920, and March, 1921, held its first annual meeting in the council's rooms in