Science Papers

FIVE DARTMOUTH faculty members from the Department of Biology presented papers at science meetings held in Philadelphia during Christmas vacation in conjunction with the annual session of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Prof. Charles J. Lyon, chairman of the Department of Biology, gave a paper before the American Society of Plant Physiologists dealing with the water relations of potato tubers; Prof. Carl L. Wilson spoke before the Botanical Society of America on The Evolution of the Stamen; and Prof. Duncan A. McLarty, botanist, read a paper to the Mycological Society of America on Revision of the GenusOlpidiopsis.

Members of the zoology staff who gave papers were Prof. W. Byers Unger, whose subject before the American Society of Zoologists was Contributions to OurKnowledge of Freshwater Protozoa of Mt.Desert Island, Maine: and James V. Neel, whose paper before the same society dealt with A Relation Between Larval Nutritionand the Amount of Crossing-Over in theAdult of Drosophila Melanogaster.