28 ILLINOIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 
THE DETERMINATION OF STELLAR DISTANCES 
PHILIP Fox, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 
Dr. Fox spoke without prepared manuscript. His address 
contained a review of the methods of determining stellar dis- 
tances with comparison of the accuracy of various methods, 
and indicated directions in which our knowledge of the ar- 
rangement of stars in space has been extended as a result of 
these investigations 
