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enterprises than to the smaller lines of work, has been continued. 

 During the past year, for example, about $460,000 were devoted 

 to the former end, and less than $100,000 to the latter. The 

 appropriations for the coming year, aggregating $661,300, are 

 divided in about the same ratio between these departments with 

 also $50,000 for administration and $70,000 for publication. 



It is a matter of interest to note what these larger projects 

 are to which the support of the Institution is so largely given. 

 They may be briefly enumerated as follows : Botanical Research, 

 directed by Dr. D. T. MacDougal at the Desert Laboratory at 

 Tucson, Arizona; Economics and Sociology, Dr. Carroll D. 

 Wright, Director; Experimental Evolution, Professor Charles B. 

 Davenport, Director, carried on at the laboratory established at 

 Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island ; Historical Research, Pro- 

 fessor J. F. Jameson, Director ; Horticultural work, carried on 

 by Mr. Luther Burbank at Santa Rosa, California ; Marine 

 Biology, directed by Dr. A. G. Mayer at the laboratory at Dry 

 Tortugas, Florida ; Meridian Astronomy, a new department 

 placed in charge of Professor Louis Boss of the Dudley Obser- 

 vatory, the special object of which is mentioned below ; Work 

 on Nutrition, carried on under Professors F. G. Benedict, R. H. 

 Chittenden, L. B. Mendel, T. B. Osborne ; Solar Physics, under 

 the direction of Professor George E. Hale, on Mt. Wilson and 

 at Pasadena, California ; Terrestrial Magnetism, directed by Dr. 

 L. A. Bauer, covering land observations at many stations in the 

 United States, Canada, the Pacific, and China, in addition to the 

 work of the ship "Galilee"; and finally, work in Geophysics, 

 carried on by Professor F. D. Adams and Drs. G. F. Becker 

 and A. L. Day, the last mentioned in charge of the Geophysical 

 Laboratory recently established near Washington. 



The department of Meridian Astronomy is a new one, estab- 

 lished by the Trustees at their meeting on December 12, 1905, 

 and having as its object the measurements of the positions and 

 motions of the so-called fixed stars. It contemplates also as an 

 essential part of its program the establishment of an observatory 

 in the southern hemisphere. In connection with the department 

 of Terrestrial Magnetism, the ship " Galilee," between August 

 5, 1905, and October 13, 1906, accomplished two voyages, 

 aggregating 11,000 and 15,000 nautical miles respectively, and 

 adding a large amount to our present knowledge of the magnetic 

 elements in the Pacific. A third voyage (as stated elsewhere) 

 began on Dec. 22 and is expected to extend to the end of 1907, 

 covering from 25,000 to 30,000 miles. 



The new Geophysical Laboratory, for which an appropriation 

 of $150,000 has been made, was begun in July, 1906, and it is 

 expected that it will be ready for occupation not later than July 

 1, 1907. Some of the important work accomplished already has 

 been published in the October and November numbers of this 

 Journal. 



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