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...will be obliged to wear fur coats, but they are indicative of scientific facts which bear an important relation to future forecasting of weather conditions", declared Mr. Henry Helm Clayton, prominent meteorologist, to a CRIMSON reporter in commenting upon the recent report of Dr. C. J. Abbott, of the Smithsonian Institute. Mr. Clayton has for many years cooperated with Dr. Abbott in the study of the effects upon the earth of changes in solar heat, and for the last ten years has, as the head of the Argentine Meteorological Department, used his observations in making daily weather predictions...
...Almost everything which the government now does to advance education was originally begun by some privately endowed organization. The Smithsonian Institution, which is a private enterprise, originated the United States Astrophysical Observatory, the National Museum, the Weather Bureau, and several other bureaus which have become important parts of our governmental machinery. If is such work as this to which the educational foundations have dedicated themselves:--not only to meet real public needs, and to give substantial aid to educational institutions, but to induce others to do the same, and to spun on the institutions themselves to better efforts to live...
Former Justice George Gray L.'63, of Wilmington, Del., has been elected chairman of the Smithsonian Institution executive committee by the board of regents. The appointment of Senator Henry French Hollis '92, of Concord, N. H. and Charles Francis Choate, Jr., '83 of Boston, as members of the board has also been announced. The Institution's endowment now totals $1,002,500, the income of which is to be devoted to research and other work...
...Institut also acts in a semiofficial capacity in co-operation with the American Copyright Office and the Smithsonian Institution in facilitating foreign copyright and the exchange of documents...
...most important functions of the institute will be the exchange of documents and scholarly literature through the agency of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and probably also the protection of the American copyright for German books. A large library for the study of historic, economic and social problems of America will be connected with the bureau...