February 10, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



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The favorable action of the trustees at 

 the annual meeting in December, 1903, and 

 the reference of the project to the execu- 

 tive committee resulted in the formation 

 of a department of international research 

 in terrestrial magnetism, with Dr. L. A. 

 Bauer as director, and with authorization 

 to begin work April 1, 1904. The first al- 

 lotment was $20,000. 



TRAXS-CASPIAN ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPEDITIOX. 



(Raphael Pumpelly, Newport, R. I., in cliarge. 

 $18,000.) 



In Year Book No. 2, pages 271-287, 

 there is a brief report of Professor Raphael 

 Pumpelly 's first expedition to the Trans- 

 Caspian region. The second expedition 

 was for the purpose of archeological in- 

 vestigations in special areas noted on the 

 first expedition. The following report is 

 an indication of the character of the re- 

 sults obtained. The final report will be 

 prepared as soon as practicable. 



Professor Pumpelly left America in De- 

 cember, 1903. A week was passed in Ber- 

 lin, where he engaged as archeologist Dr. 

 Hubert Schmidt, of the Miiseum fiir Volk- 

 erkunde. Dr. Schmidt had excavated at 

 Troy under Dorpfeld, and is an expert in 

 prehistoric pottery. A month was passed 

 in St. Petersburg in getting permission to 

 excavate in Turkestan. 



On the twenty-fourth of March work 

 was begun at Anau, near A.skhabad. The 

 members of the party were Dr. Hubert 

 Schmidt, archeologist; Ellsworth Hunting- 

 ton, R. W. Pumpelly; Langdon Warner, 

 Hildegard Brooks, Homer Kidder, volun- 

 teer assistants. 



SECONDARY GRANTS. 



The following is a record of the grants, 

 not already mentioned, made under the al- 

 lotment of $200,000 for minor grants. A 

 few reports on grants made in 1902-1903 

 are included, as the work under them was 

 continued into the fiscal year 1903-1904: 



ANTHROPOLOGY. 



George A. Dorsey, Field Columbian Museum, 

 Chicago, 111. For ethnological investigation 

 among the tribes of the Caddoan stock. $2,500. 



William H. Holmes, director of Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, Washington, D. C. For 

 obtaining evidence relative to the history of early 

 man in America. $2,000. 



ARCHEOLOGY. 



Frederick J. Bliss, New York, N. Y. For ex- 

 cavations in Syria and Palestine. $1,500. 



George F. Kunz, New York, N. Y. To investi- 

 gate the precious stones and minerals used in 

 ancient Babylonia, in connection with the investi- 

 gation of Mr. William Hayes Ward. $500. 



W. Max Muller, Philadelphia, Pa. For in- 

 vestigating monuments of Egypt and Nubia. 

 $1,500. 



William Hayes Ward, New York. For a 

 study of the oriental art recorded on seals, etc., 

 from western Asia. $1,500. 



astronomy. 



Lewis Boss, Dudley Observatory, Albany, N. Y. 

 For astronomical observations and computations. 

 $5,000. 



W. W. Campbell, Lick Observatory, Mount 

 Hamilton, Cal. For pay of assistants in re- 

 searches at Lick Observatory. $4,000. 



Herman S. Davis, Gaithersburg, Md. For a 

 new reduction of Piazzi's star observations. 

 $1,500. 



George E. Hale, Yerkes Observatory, Williams 

 Bay, Wis. For measurements of stellar paral- 

 laxes, solar photographs, etc. $4,000. 



Simon Newcomb, Washington, D. C. For de- 

 termining the elements of the moon's motion 

 and testing law of gravity. $2,500. 



W. M. Reed, Princeton Observatory, Princeton, 

 N. .J. For pay of two assistants to observe vari- 

 able stars. $1,000. 



Solar Observatory, Mount Wilson, Cal., Dr. 

 George E. Hale, director. $15,000. 



Mary W. Whitney, Vassar College, Pough- 

 keepsie, N. Y. For measurement of astronomical 

 photographs, etc. $1,000. 



bibliography. 



Robert Fletcher, Array Medical Museum, 

 Washington, D. C. For preparing and publishing 

 the Index Medicus. $10,000. 



EwALD Flugel, Stanford University, Cal. For 

 the preparation of a lexicon to the works of 

 Chaucer. $7,500. 



