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...medal is annually awarded by the society in recognition of notable astronomical investigations and is regarded as a mark of the highest distinction. It was given to Professor Pickering for his research in regard to variable stars, and his valuable work in astronomical photography. He received the award once before, in 1866, and therefore shares with Le Verier, the French astronomer, the distinction of being one of the two foreign scientists whom the Royal Society has thus twice honored...
...engaged in research at the Harvard Observatory are freed, as far as possible, from computing and similar mechanical work. The number of assistants and computers is large but it is still insufficient. As a result a great amount of data has been accumulated which, except for compilation, is ready to be published. The incomplete work now in progress would make up twenty-eight volumes of the Annals...
...work done by the different observatories varies greatly in character. Private observatories attend chiefly to some special research for which their equipments or situations are favorable. At Greenwich the work consists of testing chronometers for the navy; of transit reductions and determinations of time. The observatory at Pulkowa is pre-eminent for the extreme accuracy of its observations. To this end the apparatus is of a special design and of great accuracy; the methods adopted there sixty years ago are said still to be far in advance of those at present existing in any other government observatory. The Kiel Observatory...
...annual report of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory for 1899-1900, presented by Professor John Trowbridge, is printed in the President's Report. It contains in addition to the usual routine work of the department, the results of a large amount of experimental research, which has been carried on during the past year, by Professor Hall, Sabine, Peirce and Trowbridge. Many of these experiments are important, not only because of their scientific value, but also because of conclusions drawn from them which will have an important bearing on subjects, both of medical and astronomical interest...
...Sound Currency Committee of the Reform Club has issued a circular announcing three cash prizes for original unpublished essays, in order to encourage research and study of currency problems, and to ensure the publication of whatever valuable data and arguments may result. The prizes are of one hundred, fifty and twenty-five dollars respectively, and will be awarded for the best essays on one of the following subjects...