THE I'h'Odh'ESS OF SCIENCE. 



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Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor. 



undertake the expedition without 

 accepting the grant. 



The other large projects are research 

 in geophysics, in charge of Dr. George 

 F. Becker ($25,000) ; a department of 

 terrestrial magnetism, in charge of Dr. 

 L. A. Bauer ($20,000) ; a Trans- 

 Caspian archeological expedition, under 

 Dr. Raphael Pumpelly ($18,000) ; a 

 department of economics and sociology, 

 under President Carroll D. Wright 



($30,000), and a bureau of historical 

 research, under Professor A. C. Mc- 

 Laughlin ($8,500). In the secondary 

 grants, astronomy appears to have 

 been favored. Professor George E. 

 Hale received three grants aggregating 

 $22,000, and, according to the daily 

 papers, he has this year received a 

 grant of $150,000 for a solar observa- 

 tory on Mount Wilson. The next 

 largest grants in astronomy were 



Second Floor Plan ok the Cold Sprino Harbor Station. 



