Report of the Committee on Grants.

ness were transacted as follows: The alumni committee reported contributions to the amount of $1,500 for grant-in-aid of research for 1935-36. The semicentennial committee reported that the semi-centennial of the society would be celebrated in Ithaca in June, 1936, and that the program would consist of a history of the society during the last fifty years, an address on the accomplishments and future of the physical sciences, an address on the accomplishments and the future of the biological sciences and an address on the relation of science to the progress of human society; that the Cornell Chapter will entertain all the delegates and guests at a complimentary dinner; and that the society will publish a half-century record and history similar to the quarter-century record and history published in 1911. Charters for chapters were granted to Smith College in Northampton and Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. Professor Dayton C. Miller (Case School of Applied Science) was elected a member of the executive committee for the ensuing five years, and C. E. Davies (secretary of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers) was elected a member of the alumni committee for the same period. The Gamma Alpha Graduate Scientific Fraternity held its annual council meeting and convention on Friday and Saturday. Discussion of matters of policy centered around the report of a committee which has been investigating ways and means of increasing the usefulness of the fraternity to its members and to science in general. The report stressed the opinion of university presidents, deans of graduate schools and well-known scientists that the organization occupies a unique position among scientific societies and plays a valuable role in the various universities which have chapters. H. R. Nelson (Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio) was elected president and Professor Scott Mackay (University of Wisconsin) secretary. Sigma Delta Epsilon, graduate women's scientific fraternity, held its annual business meeting on Thursday at which the following officers were elected: President, Helen Jean Brown (Ohio State University); vice-presidents, M. Helen Taylor (University of Illinois), Mrs. Zonya Wallen-Lawrence (University of Chicago); secretary, Margery C. Carlson (Northwestern); treasusrer, Marion L. Dawson (Cornell). At the breakfast for women in science given on Saturday at the College Club, Miss Lucy Boyd spoke on "Women in Science in Scotland." Mrs. Leon H. Hetherington (Pittsburgh) made local arrangements and contributed much to the success of the meetings.