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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



medals of the value of $300 which 

 might be awarded every second year, 

 the residue of the income could be 

 used for the purchase of books and 

 apparatus, for publications or for as- 

 sisting investigation. 



The first award of the Rumford 

 premium of the Academy was made in 

 1839 to Robert Hare, of Philadelphia, 

 for his oxyhydrogen-blowpipe, and the 

 second was awarded in 1862 to John 

 Ericsson for his caloric engine. Since 

 that time the award has been made 

 with tolerable regularity, the last 



' Thermo-electric Force of Metals and 

 Alloys ' ; Harry W. Morse, ' Fluor- 

 escence ' ; John Trowbridge, ' Electric 

 Double Refraction of Light ' ; Edwin H. 

 Hall, ' Thermal and Thermo-electric 

 Properties of Iron and Other Metals.' 

 The Rumford fund now amounts to 

 nearly $00,000, and is administered by 

 a standing committee of the American 

 Academy. Applications for aid in the 

 furtherance of research on light and 

 heat may be made to the chairman of 

 the committee, Professor Charles R. 

 Cross, in care of the American Acad- 



The Galilee in San Diego Harbor. 



awards having been made in 1902 to 

 Professor George E. Hale for the 

 spectroheliograph and in 1904 to Pro- 

 fessor E. P. Nichols for his researches 

 on radiation. The surplus income of 

 the Rumford fund was at first awarded 

 chiefly to the Harvard College Observa- 

 tory and to other departments of Har- 

 vard University. The awards this 

 year have been for researches as fol- 

 lows: Professor D. B. Brace, whose un- 

 timely death occurred this month, 

 ' Double Refraction in Gases in an 

 Electrical Field ' ; Charles B. Thwing, 



emy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, 

 Mass. 



THE MAGNETIC SURVEY OF THE 

 NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. 

 The Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington has made an appropriation of 

 $20,000 to cover the expenses for the 

 current year of a Magnetic Survey of 

 the North Pacific Ocean, to be made 

 by its Department of Terrestrial Mag- 

 netism of which Dr. L. A. Bauer is 

 the director. For this purpose a wood- 

 built, non-metallic sailing vessel of 



