something to better this understanding, but the efforts should be continued unremittingly.

The contacts of the division with the general divisions of the council and their work will be considered elsewhere.

DIVISION OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY.

[CLARK WISSLER, Chairman.]

(For present personnel see Appendix A.)

At the opening of the year the division of anthropology and psychology had barely completed its organization, but proceeded promptly to the formulation of a research program. Sixteen projects were carefully considered, seven of which were approved by the division and recommended to the executive board, as follows: No. 1. Study of the American people: An anthropological and psychological research on selected racial groups in the United States.

No. 2. Prediction of success of students entering higher institutions.

No. 3. Organized search for research talent among college students.

No. 7. Establishment of a psychological journal to publish a cumulative system of analytical abstracts.

No. 9. Study of intermarriage and race mixture in Hawaii.

No. 10. Archaeological survey of the States of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri.

No. 16. Relation of intelligence and schooling to occupational ability.

Of these, projects 2, 3, 7, and 10 are under way.

Project No. 2. Prediction of success of students entering higher institutions: Under this project is contemplated a comparative research in the relative value of examinations, tests, high-school records, and other data in predicting success or failure of applicants for admission to engineering schools, medical schools, and colleges. The project is a direct outgrowth of the Mann report prepared for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The expenses of the work to date have been met by the institutions contributing the data and by a small appropriation from the division. The research is under the direction of L. L. Thurstone, of the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, who reports that the necessary data have been gathered among 154 institutions and that progress has been made with the compilations.

Project No. 3. Organized search for research talent among college students: This proposal developed into a joint project with the division of educational relations for the visitation of colleges in the Middle West to confer with the presidents and faculties of these institutions on the encouragement of capable seniors to take up graduate work in higher institutions. G. W. Stewart, professor of physics in the University of Iowa, has volunteered to act as our visiting representative in 1921.

Project No. 7. Establishment of a psychological journal to publish a cumulative system of analytical abstracts: A special committee was appointed to confer with representatives of the American Psychological Association on the subject of a "Psychological abstract journal." The work of this committee was carried to a definite conclusion, resulting in the establishment of a psychological abstract journal and provision for its financing without direct support from the Research Council.

Project No. 10. State archaeological surveys: A committee was appointed to encourage and assist the several States in the organization of State archaeological surveys similar to the surveys conducted by the States of Ohio, New York, and Wisconsin. The chairman of this committee is R. B. Dixon, of Harvard University. The plan contemplates the coordination of all the agencies within those States, enlisting the cooperation of local students and interested citizens so that an effective appeal may be made to the various States legislatures for special appropriations for these surveys. One thousand dollars was appropriated by the council for the necessary expenses of travel, etc., in the several States. So far the work has been confined to the States of Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri. In each of these States, committees are being organized and specific plans formulated for such surveys.

The following special committees of the division have been organized:

1. Child welfare research: This committee is reviewing the research needs of child welfare institutions and is cooperating with the division of medical sciences in the development of a research. plan for one such institution in response to a request.

2. Research on accumulated Army data: This committee completed its report and recommendations during the year, formulating a plan for research to utilize all of the psychological data on file in the Office of The Adjutant General. Further recommendations were made for the complete use of the data on file in the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army accumulated in the examination of enlisted and drafted men.

3. National intelligence tests: During the year the work of this committee, formerly a committee of the council at large, was transferred to this division and the committee reappointed by the chairman as a committee of the division. The tests prepared by this committee are published and distributed under contract with a publisher, the profits to revert to the council to be used for the preparation of new tests.

4. Functions of the semicircular canals: The committee appointed to report upon a proposal for nystagmus research recommended the calling of a conference, with the cooperation of the division of

in orientation, maintenance of equilibrium and perception of movement. Such a conference was held in Chicago and steps taken to organize a committee for the further consideration of these problems.

APPENDIX A.

OFFICERS, MEMBERS, AND COMMITTEES.

OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE Board.

OFFICERS.

Honorary chairman, George E. Hale, director of the Mount Wilson Observatory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Pasadena, Calif.

Chairman, H. A. Bumstead,' professor of physics and director of the Sloane Physical Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

First vice chairman, Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; president of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C.

Second vice chairman, Gano Dunn, president of the J. G. White Engineering Corporation, 43 Exchange Place, New York City.

Third vice chairman, R. A. Millikan, professor of physics, University of Chicago Chicago, Ill.

Permanent secretary, Vernon Kellogg, National Research Council, Washington, D. C. Treasurer, F. L. Ransome, geologist in charge, section of metalliferous deposits, United States Geological Survey; treasurer of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C.

By reciprocal arrangement with the Engineering Foundation-

Assistant secretary, Alfred D. Flinn, secretary of the Engineering Foundation, 29 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York City.

President of the National Academy of Sciences, Charles D. Walcott, secretary the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.

Home secretary of the National Academy of Sciences, C. G. Abbot, director of the trophysical Observatory, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, L. O. oward, chief of the United States Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C. Past chairmen of the National Research Council, George E. Hale, director of the ount Wilson Observatory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Pasadena, Calif.; hn C. Merriam, president-elect of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, ashington, D. C.; James R. Angell, president of the Carnegie Corporation, 522 Fifth enue, New York City.

hairmen of the divisions of general relations.

hairmen and vice chairmen of the divisions of science and technology.

Deceased.

MEMBERS AT LARGE.

Edward D. Adams, vice chairman of the Engineering Foundation, 71 Broadway, New York City.

John J. Carty, vice president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., 195 Broadway, New York City.

Gano Dunn, president of the J. G. White Engineering Corporation, 43 Exchange Place, New York City.

Van H. Manning, director of the division of research, American Petroleum Institute, 15 West Forty-fourth Street, New York City.

R. A. Millikan, professor of physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

A. A. Noyes, director of chemical research, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.

Raymond Pearl, professor of biometry and vital statistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

M. I. Pupin, professor of electro-mechanics, Columbia University, New York City. S. W. Stratton, director of the United States Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C.

C. P. Townsend, patent attorney, Washington, D. C .

William H. Welch, director of the School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

R. S. Woodward, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C.

ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEES OF THE COUNCIL.

Committee on budget (joint committee with National Academy of Sciences): Chairman, Charles D. Walcott; H. A. Bumstead,' F. L. Ransome.

Committee on building plans: Chairman, George E. Hale; H. A. Bumstead,' Gano Dunn, John C. Merriam, R. A. Millikan, A. A. Noyes, Charles D. Walcott, with H. S. Pritchett in an advisory capacity, representing the Carnegie Corporation.

Committee on building stone (with reference to new building): Chairman, Charles D. Walcott; H. A. Bumstead,' Vernon Kellogg, John C. Merriam.

Committee on finance: Chairman, H. A. Bumstead;' John J. Carty, Gano Dunn, George E. Hale, H. E. Howe, Vernon Kellogg, John C. Merriam.

Committee on organization and budget: Chairman, H. E. Howe; Vernon Kellogg, F. L. Ransome.

Project committee: Chairman, H. A. Bumstead;' Vernon Kellogg, F. L. Ransome. Promotion committee: Chairman, H. E. Howe; Paul Moore.

Committee on publication: Chairman, Robert M. Yerkes; H. A. Bumstead,1 Vernon Kellogg.

Committee on publicity: Chairman, Vernon Kellogg; H. E. Howe, Robert M.Yerkes.

TECHNICAL COMMITTEES OF THE COUNCIL.

Committee to confer with committee of American Association for the Advancement of Science on bibliography: Chairman, Robert M. Yerkes; Vernon Kellogg, C. E. McClung.

Committee on conservation of natural resources: Chairman, John C. Merriam; J. McKeen Cattell, John M. Clarke, Vernon Kellogg, C. E. McClung.

Committee to consider various phases of industrial research: Chairman, Gano Dunn; Comfort A. Adams, John J. Carty, George E. Hale, H. E. Howe.

Committee on Federal grants for research: Chairman, Vernon Kellogg; John J. Carty, Gano Dunn, S. W. Stratton, Charles D. Walcott, Robert M. Yerkes.

Committee on industrial personnel research: Chairman, H. A. Bumstead;' secretary, Alfred D. Flinn; Comfort A. Adams, James R. Angell, W. V. Bingham, S. P. Capen, H. E. Howe, George W. McCoy, Beardsley Ruml, Robert M. Yerkes.

1 Deceased.

Committee on Pacific exploration: Chairman, John C. Merriam; William Bowie, R. A. Daly, W. M. Davis, B. W. Evermann, H. E. Gregory, G. F. McEwen, A. G. Mayor, W. E. Ritter.

Subcommittee on anthropology: Chairman, J. Walter Fewkes, chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.; R. B. Dixon. Committee on Patent Office: Chairman, L. H. Baekeland, president of the General Bakelite Co., Yonkers, N. Y.; secretary, Edwin J. Prindle, 111 Broadway, New York City; W. F. Durand, Thomas Ewing, Frederick P. Fish, Reid Hunt, R. A. Millikan, M. I. Pupin, S. W. Stratton, C. P. Townsend.

Committee on proposed journal of scientific instruments: Chairman, Augustus Trowbridge; H. E. Howe, Robert M. Yerkes, Gano Dunn.

School scale board: Chairman, Robert M. Yerkes; M. E. Haggerty, L. M. Terman, E. L. Thorndike, G. M. Whipple.

Trustees for the publication of critical tables of physical and chemical constants: Chairman, Hugh K. Moore, manager of the research laboratory, Brown Co., Berlin, N. H.; H. E. Howe, Edward P. Hyde, Julius Stieglitz.

American Geophysical Union (acting also as the American section of the International Geodetic and Geophysical Union): Chairman, William Bowie, chief of the division of geodesy, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington, D. C.; vice chairman, Louis A. Bauer, director of the department of terrestial magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C.; secretary, Harry O. Wood, National Research Council, Washington, D. C.

Section A, geodesy: Chairman, William Bowie.

Section B, seismology: Chairman, H. F. Reid, professor of dynamical geology and geography, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

Section C, meteorology: Chairman, C. F. Marvin, chief of the United States Weather Bureau, Washington, D. C.

Section D, terrestrial magnetism and electricity: Chairman, Louis A. Bauer. Section E, physical oceanography: Chairman, G. W. Littlehales, hydrographic engineer, United States Hydrographic Office, Washington, D. C. Section F volcanology: Chairman, H. S. Washington, petrologist, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C.

Section G, geophysical chemistry: Chairman, Arthur L. Day, director of the Geophysical laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C. Representative of the National Research Council in the Crop Protection Institute, H. E. Howe, chairman of the division of research extension, National Research Council, Washington, D. C.

DIVISIONS OF THE COUNCIL.

I. DIVISION OF FEDERAL RELATIONS.

Chairman, Charles D. Walcott.

Vice chairman, C. L. Alsberg.

Secretary, Augustus Trowbridge.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

Chairman, C. L. Alsberg; Charles D. Walcott, Col. Colden L'H. Ruggles, George Otis Smith, S. W. Stratton, Augustus Trowbridge.

MEMBERS OF THE DIVISION.

The President of the United States, on the recommendation of the president of the National Academy of Sciences, acting as chairman of the division of Federal relations of the National Research Council, has designated the following representatives of the various departments to act as members of this division: