Candidates holding fellowships in the Lick Astronomical Department are usually required to spend one term each year in graduate work at Berkeley; the place of residence being assigned by the Director of the Lick Observatory, from a consideration of the needs of the Observatory work, and of the courses of instruction available at Berkeley, after consultation with the heads of the related departments of the University. In all other cases the term of residence at Mount Hamilton and at Berkeley is determined by the proper committee for each individual candidate.

QUARTERS FOR STUDENTS.

Comfortable quarters (partly furnished) are allotted to students at the Observatory. Students make their own arrangements for board and service. The cost per month for each student need not exceed $30.00. Each student should bring with him the linen for his room, blankets, lamp, etc., and should also provide himself with the text-books which are constantly needed: Young's General Astronomy, Campbell's Practical Astronomy; Bruennow's Lehrbuch der Sphaerischen Astronomie, or Chauvenet's Spherical and Practical Astronomy, Watson's Theoretical Astronomy, Oppolzer's Bahnbestimmung, or Klinkerfues '-Buchholz's Theoretische Astronomie standard six-, five-, and four-piece tables; Crelle's Rechentafeln; etc. All injuries to apparatus must be made good at the student's expense, and students are expected to provide the larger part of the chemicals used in their practice of photography.

Intending students will do well to communicate with the Director of the Observatory before filing their formal applications for admission with the Recorder of the Faculties. The Postoffice address is Mount Hamilton, Santa Clara County, California.

INSTRUCTION AT BERKELEY.

Duing the year 1903-1904 the Astronomical Staff at the Lick Observatory delivered the following lectures at Berkeley, as a part of Course 1, Modern Astronomy:

Director WILLIAM W. CAMPBELL: 1. The Motion of the Solar System through Space. 2. The Spectra of the Orion Nebula and the Trapezium Stars. Astronomer RICHARD H. TUCKER: 1. The Measure of an Arc. 2. The Lick Observatory Star Catalogue. Astronomer WILLIAM J. HUSSEY: 1. Possible Observatory Sites in the Southwestern Part of the United States.-Lantern slides. 2. A Search for Good Seeing in Australia.-Lantern slides.

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ADMISSION OF VISITORS TO THE OBSERVATORY.

The Observatory buildings are open to visitors during office-hours every day in the year. For the present visitors will be admitted to look through the great telescope every Saturday night between the hours of 7 and 10, and at that time only. Whenever the work of the Observatory will admit of it, other telescopes also will be placed at the disposition of visitors on Saturdays, between the same hours. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific holds its summer meetings in the library of the Lick Observatory.

Students of the University of California who visit Mount Hamilton are requested to make themselves known, in order that the work of the Observatory may be fully explained to them.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.

A special announcement concerning the facilities and the courses of instruction in the Lick Astronomical Department, at Mount Hamilton, and in the Berkeley Astronomical Department, has been published. Copies may be obtained from the Director of the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, California, or from the Director of the Students' Observatory, Berkeley, California.

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LIBRARY, MUSEUMS AND LABORATORIES.

LIBRARY.

The General Library, kept in the Bacon Art and Library Building, now contains over one hundred and thirty-two thousand volumes. It is constantly augmented by donations and exchange, and by large purchases of books with the income from the Michael Reese, James K. Moffitt, Jane K. Sather, E. A. Denicke, and other funds.

The resources of the Library are supplemented by borrowings from other libraries; and, similarly, the Library lends its books, under proper regulation, to other institutions. By a recently constructed addition to the building, six Seminary rooms have been provided. Ground has been broken for a new library building, provided for by the bequest of the late Charles F. Doe.

The various departments of instruction have separately kept collections of books, useful for ready reference and class-room work.

The Library and Reading Room of the Department of Agriculture, situated in Agricultural Hall, receives the publications of the Experiment Stations of the United States and other countries, as well as pamphlets on agricultural subjects published by various Governments and Commissions. About one hundred and forty dailies, weeklies, and monthlies are regularly received.

ART COLLECTIONS.

Fine Arts. The Gallery of Fine Arts, in the Bacon Art and Library Building, contains three pieces of sculpture and seventyfive paintings, illustrative of the various periods and schools of art. All these have been received as gifts from Henry D. Bacon, Mrs. Mark Hopkins, F. L. A. Pioche, Charles Mayne, R. D. Yelland, and others.

In the Library rooms below are numerous portraits, etchings. and bronzes, and to the student the Library offers the use of such collections of reproductions as the Louvre Gallery, Blanc's Peintres, Galérie des Peintres, Mantz, Krell, etc.

The fourteen hundred photographs of ancient and modern masterpieces of sculpture, presented by John S. Hittell, may be freely used in connection with the study of plastic art.

Classical Archaeology. The collections in classical archaeology comprise many rare original pieces of Greek and other Mediterranean art, and are especially rich in Etruscan and early Italian material. A large series of reproductions covers the principal periods of antique art. The University has a cabinet of about three thousand coins and medals, including some eighteen hundred ancient coins of Greek states and kingdoms, coins of early Italic republics, gentile coins of Rome, coins of the nations of Gaul, and of the Imperial period. There are also sets of wall maps of ancient countries, many engravings and photographs, and about six hundred lantern slides illustrating the topography, monuments, art, and life of ancient Greece and Rome.

Five hundred mechanical copies of classified Latin inscriptions, made in Rome under the direction of Dr. Alfred Emerson, acting for Mrs. Hearst, will enable members of the Latin Department to study Latin epigraphy more conveniently in the actual reading than they could do at Rome itself.

In addition, the resources of the University Library, and other material in the classical section of the Phoebe A. Hearst Collections, afford opportunity to study in concrete examples the arts of the ancients, and their progress and decay.

The classical exhibits of the projected Museum of Anthropology acquaint the student with classified groups of Cypriote, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan earthenware. There are, besides, the contents of fifteen Etruscan, Graeco-Etruscan and Roman-Etruscan tombs from the antique cemeteries of Abbadia del Fiume, Sovana, and Aurinia-Saturnia in Southern Etruria. A group of sepulchral pottery, and of stone effigies, from the neighborhood of Viterbo includes a dozen life-size portraits of well-to-do Etruscan citizens reclining on the lids of their own sarcophagi. The collections contain selected electrotype copies of the gold and silver objects from the royal tombs of Mycena, which are preserved in the National Museum of Athens. The sepulchral traditions of the race to which Herodotus credits the invention of glass find illustration in a collection of antique glasses and other tomb furniture from Syria. A group of facsimile reproductions after glass vessels of the Roman period, found in the Rhine valley, supplements it. There are besides, weapons, stone carvings, terra-cotta figurines, and small bronzes of sepulchral association. A collection of about one hundred

examples of Greek and Roman sculpture in marble includes some specimens of considerable value which occupy a definite place in the history of ancient art. It is an assemblage, by purchase, of pieces discovered within the last ten years in Italy, Greece, and Asia Minor. A collection of plaster casts, copies partly from antique bronzes both large and small, reproduces their oxidation; and facsimiles of a few antique pieces of note in bronze similarly oxidized, and in terra-cotta, indicate the progress of minor decorative sculpture down into the Middle Ages. Finally, there is a unique series of facsimile copies after the portrait panels of Greek mummies discovered in the Fayoum, Egypt, and preserved in the collections of Theodore Graf, Vienna, and of the British Museum and National Gallery, London, besides three original masks and one original painting. A group of Byzantine eikones from Italy and Russia illustrates the long survival in Christian art of Greek methods of painting.

MUSEUMS.

The several collections composing the University Museum have, by action of the Regents, been more closely coördinated with the departments of instruction to which they pertain than was formerly the case. Owing to the extremely crowded condition of the University buildings, it is possible at present to place on public exhibition only a very small portion of the collections.

The materials have been obtained from many sources, chief among which are the following: (1) The State Geological Survey. which contributed not only its extensive collection of minerals, of fossils, and of marine and land shells, but especially that series of skins of California birds which were the type-specimens of the species described in its report on ornithology. (2) The Pioche collection of shells, fossils, minerals, and ores illustrative of Pacific Coast forms, though principally from South America. (3) The collection of D. O. Mills, containing a large series of California land shells, and of native ores and rocks. (4) The collection of James R. Keene-a costly group of minerals. (5) The various expeditions of the Zoological Department. (6) The ethnological and natural history collections made by the Alaska Commercial Company in Alaska. (7) The series of type vertebrate skeletons purchased for the Zoological Department by Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst. (8) Four large collections of vertebrate fossils brought to the Museum by expeditions sent out by friends of the University. Recent additions have been numerous and valuable. Type