ALUMNUS RECEIVES GOLD MEDAL

At the annual general meeting of the Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society; held in London on February nine, 1917, the gold medal of the society was presented to Walter Sydney Adams '98, Hon. D. Sc., 1913, assistant director of the Mt. Wilson Solar Observatory, for his investigations in stellar spectroscopy, including the determination of absolute magnitudes.

Dr. Adams is the twelfth American and second graduate of the College to be thus honored. The recipient in 1905 being the late Lewis Boss '70.