Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-26
SCIENTISTS NAME
HERBERT HOOVER
MEDAL RECIPIENT
National Academy Honors
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Herbert Hoover will receive one of
the two gold medals to be awarded by
the National Academy of Sciences
during it's annual session here. which
opened today in the New National Mu-
scum with eighty prominent scientists
in attendance. The other medal is to
60 to Prof Alfred Fowler of Eng
land. ~
Mr.4Hoover is to be given the Eeda1
for the application OF sefsnce to th8'
pubic welfare. He will not be rfeae.
ent at the banquet at Rauschers to-
morrow night. when the award 10 to
be made. but letter from him will
be read The medal to Prof. Fowler,
awarded for enfinence in astronom-
ical physics. will be presented to the
British, ambassador. who will recoivs
it for Prof. Fowler. go
Academy Hears Of Plan.
Plans for a $1.40o.0OO building near
the Lincoln memorial as the home and
of Sciences were laid before the acad-
emy at a business session held today
before the first public session. The
academy is to end it's sessions We'd
peSday. A report on a volcano OBJ
servatory at Hawaii recommended the
transfer of the observatory to the
weather bureau, as requested by the
Department of Agriculture.
A series of papers ranging from q
discussion of plural births in man to
the 1O0-inch Hooker telescope of the
Mount Wilson Observatory were read
noon meetings today. Speakers on
the program included John NJ Clarke,
Raymond Pearl. Franz Boas. Charles
B. Davenport, w. J. v. Osterhout,
Samuel J. Meltzer, James r. Angel,
Robert NJ. Yerkes, Robert. W. Wood.
L. T. E. Thompson. C. N. Hickman. NJ
Riffolt. Robert A. Millikan. Arthur G.
Webster. George E. Hale, A. A. Michel
son and Edwin H. Hall.
Size Of Universe to he Discussed.
Tonight at s:15 o'clock. in the audi
torium of the United States National
Museum. DR.. Harlow Shapley OF the
Mount Wilson Solar Observatory and
DR.. Hober D. Curtis of the Lick OBJ
servatory will discuss the size of
the universe. The meeting is open to
the public, and will constitute the
william Ellery Hale lecture.
today by DR.. Charles
D. Walcott secretary of the Smith
sonian Institution and president of
the National Academy of Sciences, of
the plans. for the erection OF the
memorial. The plan also was out.
lined at the council meeting held at
the Cosmos Club last night.
The erection of new building IN
Washington to be the ae,annas nome .Od OF the the
National Research Council, was made
nossible through the munificence of
the Carnegie Corporation of New
York. Five million dollars was Of
A1od RI <,1
Sciences to erect the building and
endow the National Research Council.
nroyided the academy furnish suit
a BILE building site and submit salts
factory building plans. Through the
contri button of friends of the acad-
emv. fund was secured. and what is
Lnown as square 88. opposite the
lincoln Memorial building, In Poto-
MAC park, Washington, has been pur
chased. The lot. comprising $4,000
oo.t Of S1s5,O00. 1t 10 bounded by B
est On the south. 21st' street on the
go 22d street on the west and c
street on the north.
Consider Work Valuable.
Or. Walcott announced that the Car
negie Corporation considered the
u,nrk of the National Academy and
n the world and recalled the fact
tp.t - the National Research Council
had had been organized in accordance
idant issued in May. 1918, bringing
together in a representative p.;s body all
: This organization was later at
liated With similar nssionai osFani-
ssesroh council. with American Sec
lions. In December. 1919. the trustees
setting aside a million |
dollars and a further sum not to ex-
huiiding. The remainder of the fund |!
Of ave million, DR.; Walcott an
iiishment Of an income to be used for !
me expense of the academy and the |
Research Council. Plans and !
! dssigns for the erection of the build |
ing are now being prepared.
At tonight's meeting DIR. Shaplev
uiii discuss recently secured evidencs
pointing to the dimensions. Of the
xsiexy Of stars. known popularity AZ
the milky way. which he believes to |
be ten times greater than is held