New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-30
YEARS WORK IN SCIENCE.
CARNEGIE INSTITUTION.
Announcement of Tasks accom-
pIished and Plans Projected

shows that the institution has total assets OF
1910. 500 and balance hand IN the treasury on
November l last OF s45f72 The administration
/ expenses included S21 Zy7 for honorariums. and
usO for salaries OF officers The assets comprise
100000 OF registered per cent bonds OF ths
| Steel Corporation. and $4,000 each in Northern
Pacific land grant general mortgage As OF 1887 and
Santa Fe Railroad general Is OF 1893. both in ths
reserve fund. and ONCE outfit at Washington
valued at 81 800 The appropriations made for the
coming year 10000 for reserve funds. $1,000
for publication fund. $4,000 for administration
10000 for grants for larger projects and szooeo
for grants for minor researches. and $4,000 Tor
special grants The institution declined 70 maks
any grants in medicine or for preparing sys-
tematc treatises or essays in logic or philosophy
Tho report Of the committee on Observatories adj
vocates the establishment Of active astronomical
station in the southern hemisphere for the reason
that there is needed in certain special lines a
greater output Of astronomical observations which
can be obtained only in the southern hemisphere
This IL Is thought may lead TO important dis
coveries and. according TO the committee certainty
viii fill gaps in knowledge 1t Is urged that ina
project does not enter the field Of existing orgnza-
lions, and does not propose 70 do anything WHICH
is being we'll done by other agencies" The Work
OF observation proposed probably could be com
pleted within ten twelve years-
NEW oBsERvATORIE5 RECOMMENDED
THE greatest obstacle to a clear view OF tho
stellar problem" says the report, SIS the com
parave lack OF information about the stars IN thu
far southern sky that are invisible northern
Observers. When sufficiently accurately observed
facts concerning these have been obtained research
on the sdereal problem viii have received strong
impulse forward"
The committee also recommends the estaohso-
ment OF an observing station for solar invesugs-
tton at elevated point. where the atmospheric
conditions should be OF exceptional excaLencas
Mount Wilson a few miles east OF Los Angeles. u
suggested the main station for the proposed 90
lar observatory. II has altitude OF 5000 -eee-
Mount Whitney. about 10 miles north OF Nouns
Wilson, with altitude OF about EO0O feet, Is sug-
gested as the site OF auxiliary station for TIA
special observation OF heat radations in relation TO
the solar constant II Is stated that. aftsr cccu-
patton for two three seasons. relation with
the results obtained on Mount Wilson might bs
tablshed. TO render the continuance C ths
auxiliary station unnecessary. The COMMITTEES says
that IL other agencies could provide for proposed
observing stations at Cape OF Good Hope and &C
Sydney. the Carnegie Institution would Co ven
to take the responsibility for about thirty rn1ee
south OF Santiago de Chill
The Investigations proposed by the solar ohse--
vatory relate TO the suns radiation. mainly with
reference TO its effect the earth: 70 the solar
constitution. with special refAFencs 10 ths sun a.
typical star and to the evolution OF stars Ike
the from neoula.
c. r Van Hise the institutions adviser. In geo
physics recommends appropriation OF $4,000.
and an annual appropriation OF $4,000 for geo
physical laboratory
The year book embraces a special report or Z.
A Baur suggesting annual appropriation OF
5000 for International magnetic bureau T. D.
Seymour who commissioned by the instttzs-
ton to make archaeological inVsst-7tons IN Grsscs
and Asia Minor, and report 8 opportunities
for research there. reports that O knth Is sxcsed
ingly important; that exploration OF the wesrsrn
end OF Crete and Asia Minor would be Of real sci-
Orontss: Laodicea- and Bosotan TheDes seem the
SO 0ea would Be REQUIRED FOR An1toch and Iaodces
and less fer Thebes.
Raphael Pumpely. who has been making investi-
cations In the transcasplan country, on a commits
sssoce e3ea S nae f1S IN EGs Iha[ pe and ns
ton Of the statements OF long progressive desic-
converted cultivated lands into deserts and buried
clues In sands Hs reports that they have found;
sites OF human occupation. with evidences OF great
throw light on the origin Of Western ana Eastsra
nations and civilizations.
REPORT OBJ GRANTS OF FUNDS.
The grants made year ago ars officially an
nouneed for the first time Among them are:
e. 500 for chronological Investigation among the Paw,
nee INDIANS work that will require four i've
religious ceremonies OF the Pawnsss. with rsferencs
william n Holmes director OF the BTrsan or
American EthnolOgy OF Washington 5000 for OBJ
man; Involving fsld work extending TO caves and
tons carried On under this aDpfopraSo IN ISi-
Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama in the last sea-
theory Of the great antiquity OF man IN America
report says mis- work was not failure as the
positive evidence. BY establishing the unvsFssIsy
william Hayes Ward OF New-York City an ap-
preparation for the study Of Oriental recorded
tons IN Paris and Berlin have been exannined. and
about two years Will be required 70 compIsts ths
work
Lewis Boss OF Dudley Observatory Albany N Y
Hoo for astronomical observations and ooraputa-
tons. the ultimate object being Investigation ef
Professors Boss. George z. Hale and W. W Camp
bell $500 for investigating proposals Tor southeE
W. ". Campbell. Lick Observatory $1,000 for pay
or assistants In researches there.
Herman 5. Davis Gaithersburg. Nd 800 for =
new reduction OF Piazzts star observations.
Determining the elements OF the moons motion and
es s t9e , aw OF gravity me report says that
period produced by the action OF Venus has been
e C. Pickering Harvard University g. 500 for
study OF the astronomical phetographs IN the col
images OF new stars varfahles ana asteroids sorbf
less appear on the photographs. and the feasibility
discovery o. these objects IS being considered
Herbert Putnam Librarian Of Congress. 5000 for
societies. throughout the world -
Desert botanical laboratory. AZ Tucson. Artz-.
P. N Morse Johns Hopkins University. $50 for
researches on osmottc pressure. Professor Morss
reports that he has solved several important prob
A A Moves. Massachusetts INSTITUTES OF Tech
w F DuTana coTnen university' siio Tor AK
pertments on ship resistance and propulsion
Urinary exanli1ation % the trans-Caspisn rsTfor
Frank D. Adams. McGin University. Montreal
7 c.. Chamberlin University OF Chicago. 50 90
FOR study 81 the PFi9eips q soosy
S2 900 for geological exploration IN Eastern China
This work is now going on BY authority OF tbs
w c. Ford. washington 20 oOO for examination Of
sfstance OF historical investigators -
W. o. Atwater. WESLEYAN University. Nriddletown.
Conn. sOeO for experiments IN nutrition to de-
IerTntne directly con uufss