Scope and organization . occupied with the preparation ofpublications intended to assist investigators in American issues reports, aids, and guides with respect to historicaldocuments hitherto unclassified and relatixelv inaccessible. Inaddition to the sources of American histor\- available in theUnited vStates, the sources in foreign [irchives are also l)eingexplored and catalogued. This work has alread\- been extendedto archives in Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Great Ibitaiii, iMance,Germany, Italy, and Spain. 22 DEDICATION OF ADMINISTRATION BUILDING. Sixty-inch Reflecting Telescope of So
Scope and organization . occupied with the preparation ofpublications intended to assist investigators in American issues reports, aids, and guides with respect to historicaldocuments hitherto unclassified and relatixelv inaccessible. Inaddition to the sources of American histor\- available in theUnited vStates, the sources in foreign [irchives are also l)eingexplored and catalogued. This work has alread\- been extendedto archives in Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Great Ibitaiii, iMance,Germany, Italy, and Spain. 22 DEDICATION OF ADMINISTRATION BUILDING. Sixty-inch Reflecting Telescope of Solar Observatory. OF CARM;(.IH IXSTITl TIOX ()]? WASHINGTON. SOLAR OBSERVATORY. Director, Proi kssor George E. Address, Solar Observatory, Pasadena, California. TIr v^olar Observatory has l)ceii dexeloped from siij^gestioiisand reconiuiendations made in a report from an advisory com-mittee published in 1902 in the first Year Book of the late Professor S. P. Langley, a member of this committee,urged especially the desirability of establishing such anobservatory in some elevated sub-tropical localit3\ ProfessorGeorge PI Hale, also a member of the committee, called atten-tion likewise to the importance of additional direct .studies ofthe sun and to their l)earings on the more general problemsof stellar evolution. He recommended particularly the con-struction of special telescopic devices and the combination of anobservator}- with a physical laboratory. After testing the atmospheric and other conditions of variouspossible sites
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