Juuy 26, 1918] 
1. No permanent research fund. There are at 
present available for research and thus used the 
‘*Special Adams Fellowship’’ from Columbia Uni- 
versity for five years, giving $1,000 per year, de- 
voted to determination of stellar parallax by 
photography; and temporary grants from the 
Smith Fund of the National Academy of Sciences, 
for meteor research, that for the present year be- 
ing $300. 
2. The Publications of the Leander McCormick 
Observatory now in its second volume. 
University Observatory, University of Cincinnati, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. Jermain G. Porter, Director. 
1. No definite provision made for research. 
Laws Observatory, University of Missouri, Colum- 
bia, Mo. Robert H. Baker, Director. 
1. No definite income specially devoted to re- 
search. A certain amount is available for appro- 
priations for laboratory purposes in connection 
with teaching. 
2, Publications: Laws Observatory Bulletin, 
printed at expense of university. Twenty-eight 
numbers issued thus far and three additional are in 
press (February 26, 1917). These are paid for 
out of the general printing fund of the university. 
The observatory has under way the investiga- 
tion of a list of eclipsing variable stars by the 
extra-focal photographic method. The photo- 
graphic results already accumulated are far in ad- 
vance of measurements and computations, so that 
there is great need of funds for securing suitable 
assistance for these purposes. 
Emerson McMillin Observatory, Ohio State Uni- 
versity, Columbus, Ohio. Henry C. Lord, Di- 
rector. 
1. No funds available for research as distin- 
guished from teaching. 
2. No stated publications. 
Dearborn Observatory, Northwestern University, 
Evanston, Ill. Philip Fox, Director. 
1. Research Fund of $1,500; a gift from the 
Chicago Astronomical Society. 
Maintenance of observatory and salaries met by 
the university. Annual appropriation for equip- 
ment of $500. It is estimated that about half of 
salary appropriations, amounting at present to 
$4,975, may be credited to research. 
2. Earlier researches have been published in 
various astronomical periodicals, which will con- 
tinue to be the case to a certain extent. 
One volume of Annals of the Dearborn Observa- 
tory published thus far, and it is expected to issue 
others later. 
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Lowell Observatory, 
Lowell, Trustee. 
1. Constitution of astronomical staff and amount 
of funds available for research are not at present 
determined pending the settlement of the estate of 
the late Professor Percival Lowell. 
2. Publications: 
Lowell Observatory Annals. 
Lowell Observatory Bulletins. 
Lowell Observatory Memoirs. 
Lowell Observatory Observation Circulars. 
Results of observations are frequently published 
in astronomical journals. 
Flagstaff, Arizona. Guy 
Shattuck Observatory, Dartmouth College, Han- 
over, N. H. John M. Poor, Director. 
1. Aside from salary of director for teaching 
paid by trustees of the college, there are available 
annually $100 from ‘‘Library’’ Fund and $400 in- 
come from permanent fund of $10,000 for instrn- 
mental and library equipment. The college has at 
times paid a graduate student for part-time serv- 
ice as a computer. ‘‘The one thing needed here 
is assistance to do computing and routine work,’’ 
the lack of which holds back greatly the progress 
of research which otherwise might be carried out. 
2. The observatory has no stated publications. 
Papers from it have been printed in the Astrophys- 
ical Journal and Astronomische Nachrichten. 
Cornell University Observatory, Cornell University, 
Ithaca, N. Y. Eugene E. Haskell, Dean of Col- 
lege of Civil Engineering. 
1. The new observatory is but recently com- 
pleted. There is no endowment for research. The 
work at present is almost wholly instruction. 
Washburn Observatory, University of Wisconsin, 
Madison, Wis. George C. Comstock, Director. 
1. No specific fund available for research. 
2. Publications of the Washburn Observatory. 
Twelve volumes issued. 
Van Vleck Observatory, Wesleyan University, 
Middletown, Conn. Frederick Slocum, Director. 
1. No special research fund as yet provided, as 
it is only a short time since the new observatory 
was finished. 
2. Results of the researches of the director 
have been published in various astronomical and 
astrophysical journals. 
Lick Observatory, University of California, Mount 
Hamilton, California. William W. Campbell, Di- 
rector. 
1. Devoted exclusively to research. There is no 
formal teaching. Several graduate fellowships are 
