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cease to be thevoyager's bugbear if experiments ofDrs.J.Frank Pearcy and DanielHayden of Chicago are substantiatedby further tests.  \nThe possibilities of the new rem-edy came to light when the doctorswere making experiments to deter-mine the depressant effect of thecommon drug,sodium nitrite,on themechanism of the middle ear thatcontrols the balancing of the humanbody,they stated in a report of theirwork to the Anerican Medical Asso-ciation.  \n\"Believing that seasickness is duemostly,if not completely,\"they ex-plained,“to overstimulation of thevestibule(of the middle ear),wefelt that the nitrites offered a directattack at the long-sought but neverattained cure for the terrible malady  \nA Pantheon of ScienceGeneral Science  \nThe Building of the National Acad-emy of Sciences and the NationalResearch Council,which is also thehome of Science Service,has beenthe scene during the past week ofthe annual spring meeting of theNational Academy,whose proceed-ings are reported elsewhere in thisissue.  \nThis building,which is one of themasterpieces of the architectural ge-nius of the late Bertram GrosvenorGoodhue,is universally acknowledgedto be a creation of unique beauty inWashington,which is a city of beau-tiful structures.In its general out-line it is simple as its austere andmajestic neighbor,the Lincoln Me-morial;but when one comes to lookat it more nearly and at leisure,onecomes upon an endless fund of care-fully wrought detail,every item be-speaking the combination of richnessand deliberate restraint that is themark of a well-tempered finely-edgedcivilization.  \nIn addition to its functions of pro-viding a fit setting for the meetingsof the National Academy of Sciencesand of housing the multifarious exec-utive and editorial activities of thebodies that are its tenants,the build-ing offers to the wayfaring man thehospitality of a museum of the latestscientific apparatus,so arranged andlabeled that even the least learnedcan operate and understand each ex-hibit.  \nof the ocean voyage.\"  \nSo when Dr.Hayden was aboutto take a trip abroad he sought toput his theory to the test,but noneof the passengers on the trip goingover the Atlantic accommodated bybecoming ill.On the return voyage,however,he had better luck.Sixteensuccumbed and were divided intotwo groups of eight each,one ofwhich received the nitrite treatmentwhile the others were kept underobservation as controls.  Every at-tempt was made to have patients withequally acute symptoms in eachgroup.  \nThe controls were prostrated forabout two days,but the others whoreceived from three to five grains ofsodium nitrite every two hours untilthey were relieved were comfortableon deck and able to eat meals in  \n# In This Issue——\n\nDon't feed the fishes!p.258—Cafeteria museum,p.258—Matter inthe making,p.259-—Abundant helium,p.259—Botany and Religion,p.260一Loaves for eight billions,p.261—Maya metabolism,p.262—Watt pricesunlight,p.262—Taffy for warriors,p.263—Thirteen trillion bacilli,P.264—Ben Franklin's Science Club,p.265—Wrens and wrenographs,p.267—The weight of the Crown,p.269—Microsupersonics,p.269—Wanta Wombat?p.271.  \nSCIENCE NEws-LETTER,The WeeklySummary of Current Science.Publishedby Science Service,Inc.,the Institutionfor the Popularization of Science or-ganized under the auspices of the National Acad-emy of Sciences,the National Research Counciland the American Association for the Advance-ment of Science.Edited by Watson Davis.  \nPublication Office,1918 Harford Ave.,Balti-  \nmore,Md.Editorial and Executive Office,21stand B Sts.,N.W.Washington,D.0.Address  \nall communications to Washington,D.C.Cableaddress:Scienserve,Washington.  \nEntered as second class matter October 1,1926,at the postoffice at Baltimore,Md.underthe act of March 3,1879.Established in mime-ographed form March 13,1922.Title registereda8 trade-mark,U.S.Patent Ofice.  \nSubscription rate--$5.00 a year postpaid.15cents a copy.Ten or more copies to same ad","cbCaivUoWrIPumu8","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivUoWrIPumu8","pdf",1944559,16,"English","# In This Issue\n## Don’t feed the fishes!\n## Cafeteria museum\n## Matter in the making\n## Abundant helium\n## Botany and Religion\n## Loaves for eight billions\n## Maya metabolism\n## Watt prices sunlight\n## Taffy for warriors\n## Thirteen trillion bacilli\n## Ben Franklin's Science Club\n## Wrens and wrenographs\n## The weight of the Crown\n## Microsupersonics\n## Wanta Wombat?\n# Science News-Letter Publication Information","[{\"question\":\"What cause of seasickness did Drs. 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