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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



THE PEOGEESS OF SCIENCE 



THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF receipts of $13,837, and the year books 

 WASHINGTON have cost $8,416, with receipts of 



The year book of the Carnegie In- I $ 220 - The president expects that 500 

 stitution is always a scientific docu- I to " 00 copies of each publication will 

 ment of interest, as, in addition to the j ultimately be sold, and recommends 

 administrative reports, it contains a decreasing the free copies given to 

 summary of the research work accom- authors. 



plished under the auspices of the in- The new geophysical laboratory was 

 stitution. The report of the president completed during the year. It is situ- 

 of Harvard University includes brief | ated on rising ground in the northeast 

 statements from the heads of depart- '' section of Washington and has been 

 ments and laboratories, but as a rule carefully planned with reference to the 

 such reports ignore in large measure researches to which it is devoted. The 

 the real work which a university ac- solar observatory on the Pacific coast 

 complishes. lias been active in construction as well 



President Woodward's report re- as in astronomical observations. A 

 views the administrative and scientific tower telescopic apparatus has been 

 work of the year and discusses the erected with a vertical telescope of 

 question of publication. It appears sixty feet focal length. By means of 

 that the printing of the scientific pub- a coelostat and a 12-inch objective, the 

 lications, apart from the expense of solar image is formed and is carried 

 editing, administration and distribu- beneath the ground by a spectrograph, 

 tion, has cost $109,609, while the The magnetic survey of the Pacific and 



sales have amounted to $4,078. The 

 "Index Medicus" has cost $51,461, with 



of certain land areas has been actively 

 continued. Apart from the work at 



Geophysical Laboratory. 



