Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fifty-second annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science was held at Columbian University in Washington during the week from December 27 to January 3. Hon. Carroll D. Wright, who was elected president of the Association in place of Professor Asaph Hall, U. S. N., retired, spoke on "The Psychology of the Labor Question." The following Harvard men read papers: Professor F. H. Bigelow '73, of the United States Weather Bureau, on "The Semi-Diurnal Periods in the Earth's Atmosphere;" and Dr. H. W. Wiley '73, on "The Nature of the Work of the Bureau...
Professor J. E. Wolff '79, of the geological department of the University, was elected to the council of the Geological Society of America at its annual meeting at Washington on December...
Professor Hugo Munsterberg represented Harvard at the meeting of the American Society of Naturalists held in Washington on December...
Professor E. C. Pickering, director of the Astronomical Observatory, has received notice during the recess that the Observatory has been given the sum of $2,500 by the Carnegie Institution at Washington for the purpose of affording resources for the study of the large collection of astronomical photographs which has been made by the Harvard Observatory within the past few years. An exhaustive study of these photographs, which are estimated by Professor Pickering to exceed 100,000 in number, has heretofore been impossible on account of the lack of funds available for the purpose. Many of the photographs...
During Convocation Week, several Learned Societies will meet together at Columbian University, Washington, under the name of the Affiliated Societies. They are: the American Anthropoligical Association, the American Chemical Society, the American Folk Lore Society, the American Microscopical Society, the American Morphological Society, the American Philosophical Society, the American Physical Society, the American Physiological Society, the American Psychological Society, the American Society of Naturalists, the Association of American Anatomists, the Association of Economic Entomologists, the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society, the Botanical Society of America, the National Geographic Society, the Naturalists of the Central States, and the Society of American Bacteriologists...