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undertake the expedition without accepting the grant.

The other large projects are research in geophysics, in charge of Dr. George F. Becker ($25,000); a department of terrestrial magnetism, in charge of Dr. L. A. Bauer ($20,000); a Trans Caspian archeological expedition, under Dr. Raphael Pumpelly ($18,000); a department of economics and sociology, under President Carroll D. Wright ($30,000), and a bureau of historical research, under Professor A. C. McLaughlin ($8,500). In the secondary grants, astronomy appears to have been favored. Professor George E. Hale received three grants aggregating $22,000, and, according to the daily papers, he has this year received a grant of $150,000 for a solar observatory on Mount Wilson. The next largest grants in astronomy were