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use in conjunction with the telescope and to supply power for pump- 

 ing water from the wells, which are 325 feet below the summit. A 

 detailed report will be presented after the completion of the build- 

 ings and instruments. 



Mary W. Whitney, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Grant 

 No. 23. For vicasiirement of astronomical photographs, etc. (First 

 report in Year Book No. 2, p. xxiii.) ^1,000. 



The work upon the catalogue of stars within 2 degrees of the 

 North Pole, based upon photographs taken at Helsingfors, Finland, 

 is nearly ready for publication. The preliminary catalogue was 

 finished in the fall of 1903. The intercomparison of plates and the 

 other processes leading to the final catalogue are completed. There 

 remain some further consideration of magnitude and the final revision 

 of manuscript and tables. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



Robert Fletcher, Army Medical Museum, Washington, D. C. Grant 

 No. 106. For preparing a?id publishing the Index Medicus. 

 (First report is in Year Book No. 2, p. xxiii.) $10,000. 



Since the last report, the volume of the Index Medicus for 1903 

 has been completed, and the annual index to the same has been 

 issued. The latter consists of an index of authors in triple columns, 

 and an index of subjects in double columns. In the second part, 

 under appropriate headings, all the references in the year's volume 

 are brought together for convenience of consultation. Of the present 

 volume the monthly numbers from January to July, 1904, have been 

 issued, and the number for August is nearly ready. It maybe men- 

 tioned that as each number represents the literature of an entire 

 month it can not be ready for delivery until the middle of the follow- 

 ing month. 



The scope of the work is very broad in its relation to medical 

 . science. It contains in classified form everything published through- 

 out the world, month by month, which treats of medicine or public 

 hygiene. The latter subject comprises all that concerns the public 

 health in its municipal, national, and international relations. The 

 work of biologic and pathologic laboratories, which are increasing 

 in number in all the principal cities of the world and are of signal 

 importance in the prevention of disease, forms a prominent part of 

 the Index Medicus. 



The subscribers to the journal are principally residents of the 

 United States, but in the list are subscribers in Australia, Austria- 

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