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Rutgers College, has for its object the analysis of vowel sounds, 

 detailed studies of the vowel series from a to u being in progress. 



Professor W. C. Sabine, of Harvard University, who had charge 

 of the design of the new Symphony Hall in Boston, and who has 

 for several years given much attention to the problem of architectural 

 acoustics, has also been aided by a grant from the Hodgkins Fund. 



Professor Scripture, of Yale University, whose published re- 

 searches relating to speech, or phonetics, have called attention to his 

 special investigations, is now working under a Hodgkins grant on 

 the construction of a machine designed "to play the vowels like an 

 organ." Following the rule of the Institution, the application for 

 a grant, in this instance as in others, was submitted to the highest 

 accessible authority for an opinion before approval. 



Mr. C. Canovetti of Brescia, Italy, a civil engineer who has been 

 moderately aided by the Fund, has conducted a series of interesting 

 experiments on air resistance, his reports having been accompanied 

 by illustrations and numerical tables showing definitely the progress 

 of his work. 



The interesting researches on air currents conducted by Doctor 

 Marey, of the Institute of France, have been recently furthered by 

 aid from the Hodgkins Fund. An article on the history of chrono- 

 photography by Doctor Marey, which included a detailed description 

 of his own experiments in this field, especially as applied to the 

 motions of animals and to the movements of waves and currents 

 of liquids which are invisible to the naked eye, was published in the 

 Smithsonian Report for igoi. This investigation is expected to aid 

 materially in the solution of various problems connected with the 

 mechanics of propulsion in fluids, and at the same time to render 

 service in solving practical questions in ventilation, etc. 



The Hodgkins research of Doctor Victor Schumann, of Leipzig, 

 on the emission and absorption of the gases of atmospheric air in 

 the ultra-violet spectrum, is reported on in detail in the memoir now 

 about to be published in the Contributions to Knozvledge. The 

 necessary apparatus for carrying on this difficult research has been 

 designed by Doctor Schumann and constructed with his own hands, 

 and the memoir detailing the course of the investigation contains 

 an account of this special apparatus and the method of using it. 

 So general has been the interest among specialists in this advanced 

 investigation that permission was given to Doctor Schumann to 

 publish without delay, in his own country, significant discoveries 

 made in the course of his experiments. 



