The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-03-27

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fuI study OF al the researches now IN
progress respecting nutrition IN the
European laboratories
Washington a Fisld.
washington is also an unknown.
volume, full OF no one knows whaHs
vaiuabls information. IN tho shape OF
historical archives. state Documents
illustrative Of early history are hidden.
away and their contents forgotten
Prof. Mclaughlin. of Ann Areors and
worthinston c. Ford, OF this oieys with
their assistants. are engaged n he
work OF discovering and tabula4tng this
material and some new results VIII
soon be published With the printed
classification. seekers after historical
material win know exactly Whers to
search. Carroll D. Wright. Commits
sioner OF Labor. IS likewise engaged In
the direction OF certain economical
studies undertaken by the fcremoss
economists Of the country.
Among the astronomical works which
the Carnegie Institution has been pro-
noting, the only one which is carried
on in Washington relates 20 ths motion
Of the moon. This IS a mathematical in
vestigation which does not require the
use Of telescopes or any study OF how
the moon looks, being concerned alto
gether with the way this body moves
This motion has perpieXed the astrono-
mers ever since they began 20 study Il,
and they have never been able to ac-
count for slight deviatiOns which Oc-
i IN nj
sometimes in the other. The practical
/ Importance OF the question arises from
/ the fact that 1t is by the moon that the
/ longitude Of places has 70 be found.
/ where there is no telegraphic commune
/ cation with great observatories. It has
| recently been found that part Of the
/ boundary line between the British and
/ German possessions in Africa viii have
/ 70 be run by observations OF the moon
! But for the reason mentioned il is found
7 difficult to get a sufficiently exact result
IN this way. So the Royal Observatory
/ at Greenwich has taken up the study
/ OF the moons motion also those fea-
/ lures OF the case which are not being
/ considered here.
! Prof. Simon NewcOmb has been work.
| ing on this problem almost from the
/ time he commenced astronomical inves-
I IigatIOn. twenty years ago ne naQ ac-
! cumulated a great number OF calcuia-
| tons and observations for the purpose
/ IN question. while he was IN charge OF
the Nautical Almanac Office. but was
/ obliged to leave them in that Office for
want OF time to carry them on before
his retirement When the Carnegie IN
stitution expressed its readiness to sup
ply Prof. Newcomb with the mathemat-
I ical computers necessary for continuing
/ the work. application was made to Sec
rotary Moody for the calculations al
ready made. and they we're loaned the
/ Carnegie Institution for the purpose CT
being carried 70 completion An able
young mathematician. DR.. Frank 4.
/ Ross. graduate OF the University Of Cal
/ ifornia. and now research assistant Of
i the Carnegie Institution, Is engaged IN
carrying on the calculations under Prof.
/ Newcomb's direction The latter esul-
mates that two years more win be re.
/ quired for their completion. Probably
the work which the Greenwich Observa-
/ tory is doing in connection viii be COM
pleted by the same time. and then as
tronomers will have before them an In
vestigation as complete as can now b.
made OF one OF their most dIfncuit
problems.