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III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. Carnegie Institution of Washington. Year Book. JVo. 10, 

 1911. Robert S. Woodward, President. Pp. xvi, 296 ; 9 plates. 

 Washington, January, 1912. — The publication of the tenth annual 

 report of the Carnegie Institution is an event of much importance, 

 and gains a special interest from the fact that during the past 

 year an addition of $10,000,000 to the fund of the foundation has 

 been made by Mr. Carnegie ; the total endowment now reaches 

 the princely figure of $22,000,000, yielding an annual income of 

 $1,100,000. The past year has also been marked by the comple- 

 tion of the meridian astronomical work at the temporary observa- 

 tory at San Luis, Argentina. The observations, carefully planned 

 in advance by Professor Boss, were begun in April, 1909, and 

 so expeditiously carried out that about a year since the observers 

 returned to Dudley Observatory at Albany. Professor R. H. 

 Tucker was the astronomer in charge of the work. It is also to 

 be noted that the past year has seen the completion and equip- 

 ment, at a cost of $25,000, of the 70-foot motor boat called the 

 " Anton Dohrn" ; it will be used for the department of Marine 

 Biology, which has its center at Tortugas, Florida. 



The sum allotted for the ten departments, to which the funds 

 of the Institution are particularly devoted, amounted to very 

 nearly $500,000, while about $100,000 more were appropriated 

 for the minor grants, although not all expended. The total 

 expenditures of the Institution since its beginning amount to 

 about $5,500,000, of which $4,000,000 have been applied directly 

 to research, more than $300,000 to publications, and $400,000 to 

 administration. The Institution now owns two astronomical 

 observatories, five laboratories and a non-magnetic ship, besides 

 numerous buildings and pieces of real estate. Some 201 separate 

 volumes have been published and a total of 90,730 volumes dis- 

 tributed. 



The report of the President, from which these facts are taken, 

 also gives a brief summary of the results accomplished by the 

 several organized departments of research, ten in number, as well 

 as of the investigations of the research associates. These sub- 

 jects are further discussed in detail by the gentlemen in charge, 

 who give a most interesting account of the work that has been 

 prosecuted in their respective lines. It is only by a careful read- 

 ing of these individual reports, which make up the bulk of the 

 present volume, that an adequate idea can be obtained of the 

 manifold results that are being accomplished by the Carnegie 

 Institution. A special descriptive pamphlet of 34 pages with 

 numerous illustrations has been issued commemorative of this 

 tenth anniversary. 



2. Publications of the Carnegie Institution. — Recent publi- 

 cations of the Carnegie Institution are noted in the following 

 list (continued from vol. xxxii, p. 327): 



