Walter S. Adams is assistant director of Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, California, and in charge during the absence of the director, Dr. Hale, who has been for some months in Europe for ms health. This is the observatory whose work has been so highly praised by Mr. Carnegie, and which the Carnegie Institute has largely aided. The specialty of the observatory is sun spots, concerning which some remarkable discoveries have been made, and much is expected from the use of the new 100-inch reflecting telescope, which is being constructed.
Secretary, Herbert W. Blake, Gardner, Mass.