November 17, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



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see the observatories and instruments in detail ; and 

 by following the policy adopted the society will 

 have eventually visited, and become directly ac- 

 quainted with, the principal observatories of the 

 country. The Observatory at Swarthmore College 

 has been recently constructed, through the gener- 

 ous gift of the Honorable William Cameron 

 Sproul. The principal instrument is a 24-inch 

 refractor, constructed by the John A. Brashear 

 Company. It is being devoted, for the most part, 

 to photographic observations for the determina- 

 tion of stellar distances, and already has con- 

 tributed, through the hands of the director, Pro- 

 fessor John A. Miller, and his able staff of as- 

 sistants, a considerable series of results of very 

 high quality. This instrument was at the disposal 

 of the members of the society on each evening, and 

 we viewed with it star clusters, nebulae, double 

 stars, and the planets Jupiter and Uranus. 



Swarthmore College is in beautiful surroundings; 

 and the beauty of its campus was well matched 

 by the generous hospitality extended to the so- 

 ciety. Relaxation from the rather severe scien- 

 tific program was provided in a reception by Pro- 

 fessor and Mrs. Miller, a Pennsylvania Country 

 Supper in the home of Senator Sproul, and in an 

 excursion by automobile through the suburbs of 

 Philadelphia to Valley Forge. The return from 

 Valley Forge was made through Bryn Mawr to 

 Haverford College, where we were welcomed by 

 President Isaac Sharpless, and where tea was 

 served by some of the ladies of the faculty. We 

 visited here some of the buildings, and naturally 

 took great interest in the well-found observatory. 

 Continuing the ride, we arrived at dusk at the 

 Flower Observatory of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania at Upper Darby. Here we were greeted by 

 Provost Edgar F. Smith, Professor Eric Doo- 

 little and his wife, and Professor C. L. Doolittle 

 and his wife. We were the guests of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania for dinner, which was spread 

 under the trees on the observatory grounds. Un- 

 fortunately it was cloudy in the evening, so that 

 we were unable to have the expected opportunity 

 of observing with the 18J-inch refractor. We did 

 have opportunity, however, of inspecting the vari- 

 ous instruments of this well-equipped observatory, 

 and to see the work on double stars which Doo- 

 little is so ably conducting. The return to Swarth- 

 more was made late in the evening. 



The following members of the society were in 

 attendance : 



L. A. Bauer, 

 A. F. Beal, 

 Harriet W. Bigelow, 

 E. W. Brown, 

 Annie J. Cannon, 

 C. A. Chant, 

 W. A. Cogshall, 

 E. H. Curtiss, 

 C. L. Doolittle, 

 Eric Doolittle, 

 J. C. Duncan, 

 W. S. Eichelberger, 

 Philip Fox, 

 Edgar Frisby, 

 Caroline E. Furness, 

 W. E. Harper, 

 Margaret Harwood, 

 Frangois Henroteau, 

 Wm. T. Herriott, 



C. P. Olivier, 

 Edison Pettit, 

 E. C. Pickering, 

 John H. Pitman, 

 John M. Poor, 

 A. W. Quimby, 

 E. D. Eoe, 

 H. N. Russell, 

 Frank Sehlesinger, 

 Frederick Slocum, 

 M. B. Snyder, 

 Joel Stebbins, 

 Hannah B. Steele, 

 H. T.. Stetson, 

 Florence J. Stocker, 

 Helen M. Swartz, 

 John Tatlock, 

 Stephen D. Thaw, 

 Robert Trumpler, 



Leah B. Allen, 

 A. T. G. Apple, 

 S. G. Barton, 



Willis I. Milham, 

 John A. Miller, 

 S. A. Mitchell, 



Kiyotsugu Hirayama, A. B. Turner, 

 Mary M. Hopkins, F. W. Very, 



Charles J. Hudson, A. van Maanan, 



Louise F. Jenkins, J. van der Bilt, 



C. C. Kiess, W. R. Warner, 



O. M. Leland, D. T. Wilson, 



Walter A. Matos, W. L. Wright, 



Paul Merrill, C. C. Wylie. 



New members to the society were elected as 

 follows : 

 H. C. Bancroft, 412 Taylor Avenue, West Collings- 



wood, N. J. 

 Euth D. Bannister, Dearborn Observatory, Evans- 

 ton, 111. 

 Arthur Floyd Beal, Albion College, Albion, Mich, 

 Martha Clare Borton, Princeton Observatory. 



Princeton, N. J. 

 Frederick Lyons Brown, Dearborn Observatory, 



Evanston, 111. 

 Allan B. Burbeck, North Abington, Mass. 

 Clifford Charles Crump, Carleton College, North 



field, Minn. 

 Edith Eleanor Cummings, Laws Observatory, Co 



lumbia, Mo. 

 Clinton Harvey Currier, Brown University, Provi 



denee, E. I. 

 William Ewart Glanville, St. Peter's Eectory, 



Solomons, Md. 

 Edward Gray, 2635 Channing Way, Berkeley, Calif, 

 William LeRoy Hart, Harvard University, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. 

 Frangois Henroteau, Detroit Observatory, Ann 



Arbor, Mich. 

 William T. Herriott, Allegheny Observatory, PittS' 



burgh, Pa. 

 Kiyotsugu Hirayama, Astronomical Observatory, 



Tokyo, Japan. 

 Arthur S. King, Solar Observatory, Pasadena 



Calif. 

 Ora Miner Leland, 150 Triphammer Road, Ithaca, 



N. Y. 

 C. B. Lindsley, 855 East Ridgeway Ave., Cinein 



nati, Ohio. 

 Walter A. Matos, 309 College Ave., Swarthmore 



Pa. 

 Harriet MeWilliams Parsons, Vassar College 



Poughkeepsie, N. Y 

 Jesse Pawling, Naval Observatory, Washington 



D. C. 

 Edison Pettit, Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas, 



