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...addition the report contains a detailed statement of the work carried on this past year in Cambridge, and at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory. The average of the highest altitudes obtained in each of the kite-flights, made in confection with observations taken at the latter station was 6,940 feet above sea-level, and the maximum in any flight 11,180 feet...
...work at the Blue Hill Observatory, under the direction of Mr. Rotch, has been for the most part in the nature of determinations, day and night, of the atmospheric refraction above land and water, Commencing in December, 1901, kite flights were made on a fixed day each month in co-operation with simultaneous ascensions of balloons and kites in Europe...
...addition to the regular routine at the Blue Hill station semi-daily observations have been made of audibility and of the refraction of Mt. Wachusetts. The possibility of kite flying in calm weather from moving steamers was demonstrated. This discovery will open an extensive field for research, especially in the tropics...
...most interesting results of the year's work have been in the observations made with the meridian photometer, and in the experiments with kites at the Blue Hill Observatory. As a result of observations taken on 152 nights the total number of photometric settings is 100, 052, which is greater than that obtained in any previous year. The observations of all the stars north of 40 degrees, of the magnitude of 7.5 and brighter, are nearly completed. The exploration of the upper air with kites lifting automatic instruments which record atmospheric conditions has been continued. Last September records were brought...
...kite-shaped running track at Brown will be finished early in the spring...