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...government issue of $20,000,000 worth of bonds, bearing 5 per cent; these to be turned over to the new institution, and the $1,000,000 thus provided yearly to be a fund for getting the best professors in the land. In this way the museums, the Smithsonian Institute, and other national institutions can be brought in close relations with the proposed university...
...amount of valuable material accummulated with these instruments is continually increasing, and has proved useful in many cases in studying the past history of new objects. Plates have been sent to the Lick and Amherst observatories and to the Smithsonian Institution for special investigations...
...William Hallock of the Smithsonian Institution of Washington, a member of the Government Scientific Corps, has accepted the chair of Adjunct Professor of Physics at Columbia College, under Prof. Rood. Dr. Hallock is a graduate of Columbia in the class...
Professor Lovering has delivered nine courses of twelve lectures each, before the Lowell Institute, on astronomy and physics. He also gave shorter lecture courses at the Smithsonian Institute, the Peabody Institute of Baltimore, the Charitable Mechanics Institute of Boston and in many cities and towns of New England. His books and scientific articles contributed to magazines number over a hundred in all. Perhaps his best-known writing is on the Aurora Borealis. Among the magazines that he wrote for are the American Journal of Science, the Journal of the Franklin Institute, the American Almanac, the North American Review, the Christian...
...capital has made it the permanent or temporary residence of very many leading men, upon whom a university might draw for its lecture rooms and council chambers. Moreover, Washington offers advantages for scientific research, which can be obtained in no other city in this country. The Smithsonian Institute, the National Museum, the great government Surveys, sundry Government commissions and bureaus, whose work is largely scientific, and many retired officers of the army and navy, who have interested themselves in scientific pursuits, all combine to lay strong foundations for scientific activity. Here are laboratories affording the most admirable opportunities...