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...observations and will be gone about six months. The new telescope has proved to be satisfactory in the tests that it has been put to in Cambridge during the past few months, and it has already given good results at the hands of Mr. S. B. Langley of the Smithsonian Institution, who last May took several photographs of the sun eclipse with it from a point in North Carolina. The instrument is taken to Jamaica that the work may be undertaken in the topics, a region better adapted for astronomical observations. It is especially hoped that some better photographs...
These experiments have been greatly facilitated by a grant from the Hodgkins Fund of the Smithsonian Institute...
...Committee of Award for 1898 consists of the following members: Professor H. T. Peck Columbia College (chairman); Professor Daniel G. Brinton, University of Pennsylvania; and W. J. McGee, Esq., Smithsonian Institution. Washington...
When he returned he had the skins and skeletons of thirty-five gorillas, but for years the full value of this collection was not recognized. Neither the Smithsonian Institute nor Harvard cared for them...
...late Thomas Hodgkins bequeathed his entire estate, valued at $500,000, to the regents of the Smithsonian Institute at Washington...