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rections of any omissions or errors in state- 
ment. 
Dudley Observatory, Albany, N. Y. Benjamin 
Boss, Director. 
1. Principal of Observatory Funds, $140,000. 
Interest $6,300, wholly devoted to research, in- 
cluding miscellaneous running expenses. 
Appropriation received from the Carnegie Insti- 
tution (department of meridian astrometry) ; 
$29,656 annually is entirely devoted to research, 
with the exception of $1,500 appropriated for mis- 
cellaneous purposes. 
2. The researches of the observatory are largely 
printed in the Astronomical Journal which is pub- 
lished by the observatory, and which is, moreover, 
a general organ for astronomy in the United States. 
Researches have also been published separately by 
the observatory and by the Carnegie Institution, 
not in serial form. 
Amherst College Observatory, Mass. 
David Todd, Director. 
1. No funds available for research are possessed 
by the observatory. « 
Ten astronomical expeditions have, however, been 
undertaken by it, eight for total solar eclipse ob- 
servations. The funds requisite for these were 
supplied from various sources, among which were 
the National Academy of Sciences, the United 
States government and the Alumni of Amherst 
College. 
2. The observatory has no funds available for 
publication. 
The results of the researches referred to above 
have been published by the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion and in the Astronomical Journal, the Monthly 
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and 
the Astrophysical Journal. 
Amherst, 
Detroit Observatory, University of Michigan, Ann 
Arbor, Michigan. Wm. Joseph Hussey, Director. 
1. Supported by annual appropriations made 
through board of regents of the university, with 
occasional gifts from interested friends of the ob- 
servatory. 
2. Investigations are printed in The Publications 
of the Observatory. Two volumes have been issued 
thus far. 
Students’ Observatory, University of California, 
Berkeley, Calif. Armin O. Leuschner, Director. 
1. No endowment devoted exclusively to astro- 
nomical research. This is maintained so far as 
pecuniary aid is concerned by funds available from 
annual budget of laboratories (about $300 for 
equipment) and private gifts. About one quarter 
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of the time of members of the staff is available for 
research. Special grants from university funds 
are made to individuals on recommendation of a 
research board. Great aid has been given from 
the Watson Fund of the National Academy of 
Sciences. 
2. Results of researches are published in Pub- 
lications and Bulletins of Lick Observatory, and 
in Memoirs of the National Academy. 
The principal need of the, observatory, the re- 
searches in which are theoretical, is that of trained 
research assistants and computers, which is now 
met to some extent by graduate students. ‘‘ There 
is a erying need for income from regular endow- 
ment. Library facilities are amply available. 
Many important problems in theoretical astron- 
omy and celestial mechanics can not be tackled 
until endowed research assistantships are avail- 
able. The country needs a bureau for theoretical 
research, for numerical investigation of problems 
of motion, solar and stellar systems, including in 
the latter binaries, visual, spectroscopic, variable, 
ete. This important branch of astronomical sci- 
ence is sadly neglected. It should be kept apace 
with the work of the great observatories. ’’ 
Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Mass. 
Edward C. Pickering, Director. 
1. Principal of funds, July 1, 1915, $860,659.03. 
Income for preceding year, $53,808.15. Entire in- 
come is devoted to research. 
2. Publications: 
Annals, quarto, of about two hundred fifty 
pages each; seventy-seven volumes are com- 
plete, six in process of publication. 
Circulars, quarto, one to four pages, two hundred 
issued. 
Bulletins, octavo, one page, six hundred twenty- 
four issued. f 
Annual Report, octavo, ten to fifteen pages, last 
issued the sevyentieth. 
Several Reports of the Visiting Committee and 
numerous miscellaneous pamphlets, generally 
octavo. 
Students’ Astronomical Laboratory, Harvard Uni- 
versity, Cambridge, Mass. Robert W. Willson, 
Professor of Astronomy. 
1. Is primarily intended for teaching the sci- 
ence to undergraduate and graduate students. A 
certain amount of research is carried on, but no 
stated appropriation therefor is made. 
Leander McCormick Observatory, University of 
Virginia, University, Charlottesville, Va. Sam- 
uel Alfred Mitchell, Director. 
