NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AUTUMN MEETING

The National Academy of Sciences held its Autumn Meet- attended the theater in the new Kennedy Center. The business ing in Washington, D.C., on October 25-27, 1971. This was session of the Academy was convened on Monday, the first the first Autumn Meeting to be held in Washington since day of the meeting. The scientific sessions were comprised of 1956. Monday evening was devoted to a dinner for members concurrent symposia on Tuesday and a group of Contributed and their guests and a reception for special guests of the Papers on Wednesday morning. Abstracts of the Contributed Academy, followed by a concert presented by the Vermeer Papers were printed in the November 1971 issue of the Quartet. On Tuesday evening members and their guests PROCEEDINGS (pp. 2898a-2900a).

SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26

Morning Session-Auditorium

NEW EVIDENCE AS THE BASES FOR INCREASED EFFORTS IN CANCER RESEARCH

Organizing Chairman: ROBERT J. HUEBNER

ROBERT J. HUEBNER, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland: Introduction. FRANK J. RA&UCHER, JR., National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland: Cancer Viruses in Perspective. HowARD M. TEMIN, McArdle Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin: The RNA Tumor Viruses-Background and Foreground. RAYMoND V. GILDEN, Flow Laboratories, Inc., Rockville, Maryland: Group-Specific Antigens of RNA Tumor Viruses as Markersfor Subinfectious Expression of the RNA Tumor Virus Genome. WA.INCE P. RowE, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland: Basis for RNA Tumor Virus Inheritance in Mice-Demonstration ofInfectious Genome in Normal Cultured Cells. GEORGE J. TODARO, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland: The Viral Oncogene Theory-New Evi- dence. GEORGE KLEIN, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden: Herpes Viruses and Lymphomas in Animals and in Man.

Afternoon Session

Chairman: SEYMOUR S. COHEN

MAURICE GREEN, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri: Molecular Hybridization of the RNA and DNA of Tumor Viruses with Cell Nucleic Acids. SOL SPIEGELMAN, Columbia University, New York, New York: On the Problem of Detecting the Reverse Tran- scriptase in Human Cancers. 3247a Downloaded by guest on September 23, 2021 3248a National Academy of Sciences Autumn Meeting

ROBERT A. GOOD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Immunogenetic Factors in the Genesis of Cancer. PHILLIPE SHUBIK, Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska: Current Status of Chemical Carcinogenesis. GORDON C. ZUBROD, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland: Chemical Control of Cancer. SEYMOUR S. COHEN, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado: On the Development of Programs in Cancer Research.

Morning Session-Lecture Room MOLECULAR CONSTITUENTS OF INTERSTELLAR SPACE

Chairman: CHARLES H. TOWNES University of California Berkeley, California

WILLIAM J. WELCH, Radio Astronomy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California: Synopsis of Present Information on Interstellar Molecules and Dense Clouds. PATRICK THADDEUS, Institute for Space Studies, Columbia University, New York, New York: The Distribution and Excitation of CH20 in Interstellar Space. DAVID BUHL, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Virginia: Molecular Astronomy at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. ARNO PENZIAS, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey: Results and Prospects for Molecular As- tronomy at Millimeter Wavelengths. BENJAMIN M. ZUCKERMAN, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland: Isotopic Abundances and Their Connection with the Origin on Interstellar Materials.

Afternoon Session MODELS FOR ENZYMATIC REACTIONS

Chairman: DANIEL E. KOSHLAND, JR.

DANIEL E. KOSHLAND, JR., University of California, Berkeley, California: Introductory Remarks. CHRISTIAN B. ANFINSEN, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland: Modelsfor Folding to Give Active Enzymes. JOSEPH KRAUT, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California: Subtilisin and Chymotrypsin-Model for Convergent Molecular Evolution. KONRAD E. BLOCH, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Models for Active Site Probes. LEONARD B. SPECTOR, Rockefeller University, New York, New York: Covalent Models-The Phosphoenzyme Intermediate in Carboxylate Kinase. Downloaded by guest on September 23, 2021 National Academy of Sciences Autumn Meeting 3249a

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27

Morning Session-Lecture Room CONTRIBUTED PAPERS

Session Chairman: SEYMOUR S. COHEN

Catalytic Reduction of Stratospheric Ozone by Nitrogen Oxides: HAROLD JOHNSTON, University of California, Berkeley, California. Nature of Oxygen Inhibition of Nitrogenase: R. H. BURRIS and PETER P. WONG, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. Magnetic and Gravitation Effect on Osmotic Equilibria: P. F. SCHOLANDER, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, and MANOEL PEREZ, Istituto de Pesquisas da Marinha, Brasil. Chemical Events during Electrical Activity of Conducting and Synaptic Membranes: DAVID NACHMANSOHN, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York. Scanning Electron Microscopy of Coelomomyces: C. E. BLAND, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina (Introduced by John N. Couch). Coelomomyces, a Fungus for Mosquito Control: JOHN N. COUCH, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. "Supernutrition" as a Strategy for the Control of Disease: ROGER J. WILLIAS, Clayton Foundation Biochemical Institute, University of Texas, Austin, Texas. On the Significance Level for Genetic Dominance of IQ and on the 24-Point Difference between Twins Gladys and Helen: W. SHOCKLEY, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

In conjunction with papers by J. N. Couch and C. E. Bland presented at the meeting, an exhibit of scanning elec- tron micrographs of the sporangia of a number of species of Coelomomyces was displayed in the Academy's Reading Room. Downloaded by guest on September 23, 2021