Voi<. 6, 1920 
REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
445 
The following report from H. F. Osborn, Chairman of the Elliot 
Fund, was read: 
The Committee is requesting recommendations for the award for the year 1919, 
the award to be made for the best zoological work of the year. 
The Treasurer reports that on March 31, 1920, there was a cash balance of $564.81 
in this fund, and that on the same date the sum of $300 of income was invested in 
Liberty Bonds. 
The only appropriation from the Gould Fund for the current year 
has been $600 to Bknjamin Boss for the purpose of meeting part of the 
expenses of the Astronomical Journal. The cash balance of this fund is 
$840.01; the invested income, $6,250. 
The Committee on the Hknry Draper Fund report was presented. 
The Committee recommended the award of the Draper Gold Medal 
to Alfred Fowler, F.R.S., Professor of Astrophysics, Imperial College, 
South Kensington, London, for contributions to our knowledge of sun- 
spots, comets and the stars — especially red stars of Secchi's type III — 
on the basis of spectroscopic observations, and his interpretations of celes- 
tial phenomena. 
The following grants were recommended: 
$400 to S. A. Mitchell, of the University of Virginia, to complete the purchase of 
a measuring microscope for use in the photographic determination of stellar parallaxes, 
on the basis of observations made with the 27-inch refracting telescope. The Academy 
awarded the sum of $250 from the Draper Fund to apply on the purchase of this instru- 
ment and the proposed grant of $400 will complete the purchase. The microscope, 
costing $650, becomes in effect the property of the Academy. Professor Mitchell will 
devote an equivalent sum, $400, to other needs of his parallax research, 
$300 to Joel Stebbins, Professor of Astronomy in the University of Illinois, to assist 
in the further development of the photo-electric-cell photometer. 
$400 to Frank SchlESINGER, Director of the Allegheny Observatory to enable him to 
test an automatic zenith camera for the determination of terrestrial latitudes, with 
the expectation that the results will be more accurate than any hitherto obtained by 
other means. It is proposed that this instrument be mounted temporarily at the 
International Latitude Observatory at Ukiah, California, where the astronomer in 
charge will operate it for a year or two as a labor of love. The grant is needed to install 
the instrument at Ukiah and to make certain auxiliary apparatus required in its opera- 
tion. The Allegheny Observatory is loaning the objective and the photographic plates 
obtained will be measured by Dr. Schlesinger himself or under his immediate direction. 
$175 to E. B. Frost, Director of Yerkes Observatory, for the purchase of a Hess- 
Ives tint photometer for use in the Yerkes Observatory, to supplement the Hartmann 
micrometer in the measurement of various illuminants, of the transmission of filters 
for various wave-lengths, of the absorption of photometric gratings, and of other phe- 
nomena and subjects. 
$500 to Dr. Antonio Abetti, Director of the Arcetri Observatory, Florence, Italy, 
to apply on the cost of a combined spectrograph and spectro-heliograph for use in com- 
bination with a 60-foot tower telescope now under construction. It is planned that 
this instrument shall be used by the son of the Director, Dr. Giorgio Abetti, well known 
to many American astronomers, recently transferred from the Observatory in Rome 
to the Arcetri Observatory. 
