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The National Academy of Arts an Sciences will hold the second session of its autumn meeting in the new building of the Massachusetts Institute of technology today. Eleven officers or graduates of the University will give should talks on scientific subjects.
At the morning session, besides other speakers, the following men will speak.
Edwin H. Hall, of the Physics Department, on "Electric Conduction in Metals, (illustrated); R. W. Wood '91, of John Hopkins University, of "One-Dimensions Gases and the Reflection of Molecules Series in Resonance Spectra," (illustrated); Charles B. Davenport -89, of the Station for Experimental Evolution, Carnegie Institution, on "Heredity of Stature," (illustrated). A. G. Webster '96 of Clark University, on "Practical Test of a New Phonotrope"; G. P. Baxter. '96 and H. W. Starkweather, of the University, of "A Revision of the Atomic Weight of Tin"; T. W. Richards and R. S. Davis '07, of he University, on "improvements in Calorimetric Combustion"; T. W. Richards and C. Wadswroth 3d, '13, of the University, on "Further Study of the Atomic Weight of Lead of Radioactive origin"; Gilbert N. Lewis '96, of the University of California, of "Chemical Affinity"; Walter B. Cannoa '96, of the University on "Oscillatory variations in the Contraction of Rhythmically Stimulated Muscles"; G. H. Parker '86 of the University, on "The Responses of Hydroid to Gravity," and W. M. Wheeler '02, of the University, on "The Physic genetic Development of Subapterous and Apterous Castes in the Formicidas."
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