REED COLLEGE ANNUAL ;. 1 9 l 5 11611 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH For some of the Reed students the most distinctiv achiev- ments of their college courses wil be papers embodying the results of original investigations, ritten in connection with their scientific courses. The undergraduates ar expected to obtain much of their material from their own observations, and hav shown that they can, with a little direction, make investiga- tions. The lack of tecnical experience, added to a more or les partial knoledge of general subjects may hav handicapt but has not eliminated the undergraduate from research. In the newer sciences there ar problems awaiting solution which do not require a tecnic difficult of mastery. Some of these prob- lems hav alredy been undertaken in connection with courses other than seminars, and papers haV appeard in varius publica- tions dealing with the subjects of biology, fysics, and sociology. In the foIloing pages ar sketcht the details of some of the research that has recently been attempted. The Role of Random iWovmtzmzts m the Orientation of Porcellio Scaber to Light, by Dr. Torrey and Grace Hays, and The Earthworm and the JVIethod of Trial, by Linus Bittner, Glenn Johnson, and Dr. Torrey, ar papers which ap- peard in the 11mm! of Animal Behavior for March-April, 1914, and January-February, 1915. These papers, as wel as one by Marvin Howes and Dr. Torrey which is now being prepared for publication, deal with the problem of the interpretation of the reactions of organisms to light. The question of whether there is a forst movement depending on an underlying mecan- ism, or whether there is the factor of selection on the part of the organism, has been the crux of a controversy lasting for several years. The evidence in all three papers indicated a forst reaction explainable on a mecanical basis. TWO papers, Feeding the Fingerhng 501112011, by Dr. Torrey, printed in the Oregon Sportsman of September, 1914, and Notes 0n the Rearing of Salmon, by Dr. Torrey and Donald Lancefield, printed in the Transactions of the American Fisheries Society of March, 1915, embody the results of ex- periments carried on by Mr. Lancefield under the direction of Dr. Torrey at the fish hatchery. The results shoed the food value of cookt beef liver and the influence of the volume and shape of the body of water on the development of the fish. Regulation in Vortz'cclla, by Milton Runyan and Dr. Tor- rey was printed in the Biological Bulletin for December, 1914. This paper shoed that the presence of one part of an animal definitly modified the growth of another part, so that the removal of one resulted in a definit change of the other. Glenn Johnson, who has spent two summers in helping to stock the different lakes and streams of Oregon with fish, rote an article for the Oregon Sportsman for September, 1914, the title of which is The Stocking 0f the Cascade Alozmtain Lakes.
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