144 HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



Contributions from the Chemical laboratory of Harvard college. 

 1890/94-1902/04. 4V. 8. 



v. 5 in progress. Title-page and table of contents issued for each vol. 

 when completed. 



Contributions from the Jefferson physical laboratory of Harvard uni- 

 versity for the year 1903-1905. v. I-III. Cambridge, [1904-06]. 8. 

 Issued in annual volumes. 



Contributions from the Harvard mineralogical museum. I-XII, June 

 i898-Dec. 1902. 



Distribution. Any of the above publications may be ordered through the Pub- 

 lication office, 2 University Hall, Cambridge, Mass. Requests for exchange 

 addressed to this office will be forwarded to the proper person for attention. 



Research funds. THOMAS JEFFERSON COOLIDGE FUND ($57,500) and 

 JOSEPH LOVERING FUND (about $8,000), for research in physics at the 

 Jefferson physical laboratory, are administered by the Director of the 

 laboratory. CYRUS M. WARREN FUND (about $6,500) for the pro- 

 motion of chemical research is administered under the advice of the 

 Division of chemistry. 



See also under each of the following institutions : 



ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 



Address. Cambridge, Mass. Director : E. C. Pickering. 



History. Astronomical work organized in 1840; observatory erected by 

 subscription initiated in 1843 > telescope mounted in 1847. Prelimi- 

 nary investigations for the selection of a suitable site for a permanent 

 observatory in the Southern hemisphere begun in 1889 and Station at 

 Arequipa, Peru, established in 1890-91 (by means of the Uriah A. 

 Boyden fund, transferred by its trustees in 1887 to the observatory for 

 this purpose). 



Ref.: Annals . . . v. i, pt. i ; v. 8, pt. i. History of the Harvard college 

 observatory during the period 1840-1890. By D. W. Baker. (Reprinted 

 from the Boston evening traveller.) Cambridge, 1800. 8. The 

 Astronomical observatory of Harvard college. Cambridge, 1904. 8. 



Publications. 



ANNALS . . . v. I-XLVI, XLVIII, LI, LIII. Cambridge, 1856-1905. 

 fol. 



v. 47, 52, 55, 56, 58, 60 in progress; v. i, pt. 2, pub. 1855; v. 9, pub. at 

 Leipzig; v. 15, pt. 2 at Karlsruhe; v. 25, 35-36 at Waterville, Me. 



Observations and investigations of Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory 8 , 

 1887-1904: in v. 20, 30, 40, 42, 43, 58. 



Under the direction of A. Lawrence Rotch, who founded the observatory in 

 1885 and maintains it at his own expense. Observations for 1885 and 1886 with an 

 account of the observatory, published independently; also Bulletin, 1898-1900. 4. 



