NO. lS6S NOTES 399 



Anniversary of UNivriRSiTY of Leipzig. — Dr. William H. Welch, 

 of Johns Hopkins University, has been appointed delegate on the 

 part of the Institution to the celebration in Leipzig, from July 28 to 

 30, 1909, of the five hundredth anniversary of the founding of the 

 University of Leipzig. 



Grants 



A grant of a considerable sum was recently made from the Hodg- 

 kins Fund for the erection during this summer, on the summit of 

 Mount Whitney, California (14,500 feet), of a stone and steel struc- 

 ture to be used by investigators in the study of astrophysics or in the 

 prosecution of any other researches for which high altitudes and 

 clear atmosphere are desired. 



An allotment was approved for the erection on Mount Wilson, 

 California, of a shelter for the Smithsonian observers of the Astro- 

 physical Observatory during the summer months, when conditions 

 for solar radiation measurements are peculiarly favorable. 



An appropriation from the Hodgkins Fund is being devoted to the 

 construction of several copper-disk pyrheliometers, these instruments 

 to be lent to observers in different parts of the world for the purpose 

 of establishing an international scale of pyrheliometry. 



A considerable grant has also been made by the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution on behalf of Professor J. P. Iddings, of the United States 

 Geological Survey, for the collection in Manchuria of Cambrian fos- 

 sils and rocks, and in Japan, Java, and neighboring countries of 

 volcanic rocks. 



