518 



SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. L. No. 1301 



GENERAL DATA OP STATE ACADEMIES 



Academies of Sciences. 



Annual 



Pages ol 



Publications 



California 



Colorado 



Connecticut 



Florida 



Illinois 



Indiana 



Iowa 



Kansas 



Kentucky 



Michigan 



Nebraska 



New Mexico 



New York 



North Carolina 



Ohio 



Oregon 



Tennessee 



Texas 



Utah 



Washington, D. C 



Wisconsin 



Wyoming 



Philadelphia Acad. Nat 



Sci 



St. Louis 



300= 

 142 



314 

 231 

 350 

 173 



96 

 208 



73 



25 

 624 



80 

 258 



$ 6.00 

 10.00 



1.00 

 1.00 

 1.00 

 1.00 

 1.00 

 1.00 

 1.00 

 1.00 



.50 

 10.00 



No data given 



None 



From private 

 funds, $1,530 



None 



SI, 000 



S700 



Printing 



S1,3C0 



None 



Printing 



$150 



None 



From private 



funds, $2,538 

 None 

 From private 



funds, $250 



75 2.00 None 



No data given excepting 

 92 1.00 None 



518 

 350 



458 

 210 



5.00 

 1.00 



10.00 

 6.00 



From private 

 funds, $750 

 $1,500 



From private 

 funds, $36,000 



From private 

 funds, $850 



None 



None 



None 



None 



$1,000 



None 



$75 



None 



None 

 None 



None 

 None 

 None 

 $200 

 $19,000 



None 

 345 ± 

 475 



550-600 

 400 

 None 



300-400 

 75 



None 

 300-500 



244 (1908- 

 1917) 

 800 



500 



650 



200-300 



'Apathetic during war, but now 

 interest is reviving." 



' Lively interest in publications, 

 but a decided lack of interest 

 in the meetings." 



' Dead " 



" More lively than apathetic " 



" Good and getting better " 



" Lively " 



" Rather apathetic " 



" Fairly lively " 



" Interest reviving " 



" Lively interest at the aimual 

 meeting, but apathetic the re- 

 mainder of year " 



"Active " 



" Very lively" 

 Fair 



" Long time dead " 

 " 60 per cent, alive " 

 "Apathetic " 

 " Rather apathetic " 



"Active " 



"About 50/50" 



" Dead " 



" Up to standard " 



" Majority apathetic " 



State or private sources to publish articles of 

 considerable scientific value -which due to 

 their extreme specialization, local or very 

 general nature, would not be accepted by the 

 current journals. If the academies have out- 

 lived their general usefulness they can still 

 remain very influential in existing solely as 

 publication centers for special articles. 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science has recently proposed a 

 plan in which it has invited the academies to 

 affiliate with it. This is not only a very 

 gracious act but one. that may stimulate the 

 academies to further and more important 

 activities. David D. Whitney, 



President of the Nehrasha 

 Academy of Sciences, May 

 1918, to May, 1919 



October 15, 1919 



RESULTS OF THE TOTAL SOLAR 



ECLIPSE OF MAY 29 AND THE 



RELATIVITY THEORYi 



The results obtained at the total solar 

 eelip.oe of May 29 last were reported at a 

 joint meeting of the Royal and the Eoyal 

 Astronomical Societies, held on November 6. 

 The stations occupied were Sobral, in North 

 Brazil, and Principe Island. Two cameras 

 were employed at Sobral, the 13-in. objective 

 of the Greenwich astrographic equatorial, and 

 a 4-in. lens, of 19-ft. focus, lent, together with 

 an 8-in. coelostat, by the Royal Irish Academy. 

 It was realized before the expedition started 

 that the coelostat was scarcely suitable for 

 observations of such extreme precision as 

 were required to detect and measure the 



1 From Nature. 



