in making butter and cheese and in testing milk and its products by the Babcock method. Besides milk and cheese vats, cream separators, churns and pasteurizing apparatus, there is a cold-storage room, fitted with a refrigerating plant, having a cooling capacity of one ton of ice. The machinery is run by a five horse-power motor, for which power is furnished by the department of Mechanics. A three horse-power boiler furnishes steam for heating and cleansing purposes and for running the Babcock centrifugals. Laboratory and desk room is provided for thirty-six students. The barn is in process of construction and it is confidently expected that another year will see a herd established and the experimental work in feeding and breeding animals, which our State now so greatly needs, fully under way. The Experiment Station and Sub-Stations of the College of Agriculture make provision for systematic experimentation in the culture of the various farm products of California. The investigations include the introduction and testing of new varieties, the study of diseases of plants and animals, the repression of vegetable and animal parasites, etc. Samples sent for examination are analyzed or tested, and reported upon by letter as rapidly as the examinations can be completed. The entire technical staff of the department takes part in the experimental work. There are at present eight stations at which this work is prosecuted, namely: The Central Station at Berkeley, organized in the year 1875, from which all work connected with the various sub-stations is directed, where all laboratory investigations are made, and whence all official communications are sent. The University grounds, portions of which are set apart for experimental culture, are much diversified in aspect, are traversed by two water-courses, and are adapted to a great variety of plant life. Four Outlying Culture Sub-Stations, intended mainly for culture experiments in the several distinct climatic regions of the State. These are: (1) The Sierra Foothill Station, near Jackson, Amador County; (2) The Southern Coast Range Station, near Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo County; (3) The San Joaquin Valley Station, near Tulare, Tulare County; (4) The Southern California Station, on the Chino Ranch, between Chino and Pomona, Los Angeles County. Two Forestry Stations, one at Santa Monica, Los Angeles County; the other near Chico, Butte County. The management of these stations was transferred to the University by the State Legislature in 1893. They are used for the experimental growing of trees likely to be of practical value in forestry in this State. A Viticultural Station for experimentation with phylloxera-resistant vines near St. Helena, Napa County, under the auspices of Mr. James Moffitt. Experiment Station Publications. The Annual Report and the Bulletins on important farm topics which are published from time to time are sent free of charge to all citizens of the State who request that their names be placed on the mailing list. The Gymnasium presented to the University by the late A. K. P. Harmon, has been much enlarged, and now contains eleven thousand six hundred square feet of clear floor space; is well equipped, and provides all the students with opportunities for physical exercise. Besides the main hall and athletic quarters are the Director's and Medical Examiner's offices, a lecture-room, sixty-three shower-baths, fifty-five dressing-rooms, and seven hundred lockers for the use of the students. The annual rental of each locker is one dollar. The exercises in the gymnasium are conducted systematically under the supervision of the Director of Physical Culture. HEARST HALL. Hearst Hall has been presented to the University and has been fully equipped, by Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, for a Women's Gymnasium. It contains the very best of modern equipment, with special facilities for exercises to overcome deformities or correct physical defects. Besides the main hall the building includes offices for the Director and the woman physician, a lecture-room, shower-baths, dressing-rooms, and lockers. The lower floor is used as a general gathering place for the women of the University. Connected with the gymnasium is a large enclosed court, 150 feet long and 80 feet wide, with a seating capacity of one thousand, also the gift of Mrs. Hearst. It is intended to be used as an out-door gymnasium, as well as for basket-ball, and other games suitable for women. LICK ASTRONOMICAL DEPARTMENT. OFFICERS OF THE OBSERVATORY. BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER, President of the University. WILLIAM W. CAMPBELL, Director and Astronomer. RICHARD H. TUCKER, Astronomer. WILLIAM J. HUSSEY, Astronomer. CHARLES D. PERRINE, Assistant Astronomer. ROBERT G. AITKEN, Assistant Astronomer. WILLIAM H. WRIGHT, Assistant Astronomer. ARCHIBALD J. CLOUD, Secretary. BENJAMIN F. MILLS, JR., Secretary. WILMETTA CURTIS, Secretary. HISTORY OF THE LICK OBSERVATORY. The Observatory was founded by James Lick, by a deed of trust dated September 21, 1875. This deed devotes the sum of $700,000 to "the purpose of purchasing land, and constructing and putting up on such land a powerful telescope, superior to and more powerand, also, a suitable observa * * * ful than any telescope yet made; * * * tory connected therewith." The deed further provides that "if, after * To August 1, 1901. † Assistant to August 1, 1901. Resigned August 19, 1901. From September 1 to November 30, 1901. From December 1, 1901. * * the construction of said telescope and observatory, there shall remain of said $700,000 * any surplus," the surplus shall be invested, and that "the income thereof shall be devoted to the maintenance of said telescope and the observatory connected therewith, and shall be made useful in promoting science; and the said telescope and observatory are to be known as the Lick Astronomical Department of the University of California." The gift of Mr. Lick was accepted by the Regents December 7, 1875. Mr. Lick had already, in August, 1875, selected Mount Hamilton, in Santa Clara County, as a site for the Observatory. Land for the site (1350 acres) was granted by act of Congress, June 7, 1876. One hundred and forty-nine additional acres were purchased by Mr. Lick, and a tract of forty acres was added by gift of R. F. Morrow, Esq., in 1886. The north half of section sixteen of the township was granted to the University, for the use of the Observatory, by the Legislature of California in 1888. This land (320 acres) is contiguous with the grant from the United States. Congress also granted, in 1892, an additional tract of 680 acres. A tract of 40 acres, adjoining the reservation on the east, was purchased in 1901. The total area of the reservation is about 2,621 acres. The Observatory consists of a Main Building, containing computing rooms, library (of 4,800 books and 4,400 pamphlets), and the domes of the 36-inch Equatorial and the 12-inch Equatorial; and of Detached Buildings to shelter the Crossley Reflector, the Meridian Circle, the Transit, the horizontal Photoheliograph, the portable Equatorial, and the Crocker and the Floyd Photographic telescopes. On the grounds are dwelling-houses for the astronomers, students, and employees, and shops for the workmen. The Observatory is well provided with instruments, some of which are enumerated below: 36-inch Equatorial; objective by Alvan Clark & Sons, mounting by Warner & Swasey. This instrument has also a photographic corrector of 33 inches aperture, figured by Mr. Alvan G. Clark. 3-foot Reflecting Telescope; presented to the Lick Observatory in 1895 by Edward Crossley, Esq., F.R.A.S., of Halifax, England. This instrument was constructed by Dr. A. A. Common, F.R.S. The building was constructed from funds subscribed by citizens of California. 12-inch Equatorial; by Alvan Clark & Sons. 64-inch Meridian Circle; objective by Alvan Clark & Sons, mounting by Repsold. 6-inch Equatorial Mounting; by Warner & Swasey. 6-inch Bruce Comet Seeker; objective by Brashear, mounting made at the Lick Observatory. 6-inch Crocker Photographic Telescope; objective by Willard, refigured by J. A. Brashear, who provided the mounting also. 5-inch Floyd Telescope; presented by Miss H. A. L. Floyd; interchangeable photographic and visual objective by Alvan Clark & Sons. 5-inch horizontal Photoheliograph; by Alvan Clark & Sons. 4-inch Transit; objective by Alvan Clark & Sons, mounting by Fauth & Co. 4-inch Comet Seeker; by Alvan Clark & Sons. A Spectroscope, especially adapted for photography; given by Hon. D. O. Mills, for use with the 36-inch Refractor. A Spectroscope, especially adapted for photography with the Crossley Reflector, and two Photometers for use with the 36-inch and 12-inch telescopes, have been provided from the proceeds of a gift from the late Miss C. W. Bruce, of New York City. A 37-inch Cassegrain Reflecting Telescope, with modern dome, and a 3-prism spectrograph, are nearing completion. They are the gift of Hon. D. O. Mills, for use principally on an astronomical expedition to the southern hemisphere. There are, besides, many minor pieces of apparatus. FELLOWS. The Regents have established in the Lick Astronomical Department four salaried Fellowships, three of which are usually awarded to graduate students who are candidates for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. SPECIAL ASSISTANTS. On the recommendation of the Director and with the approval of the President, persons with experience in astronomical investigation may occasionally be received at the Lick Observatory, to act as assistants in definite researches then in progress. These assistants, serving without pay, will be assigned to such duties as will be advantageous both to the Observatory and to themselves. Opportunity for making independent researches will be available only in exceptional cases. SPECIAL INVESTIGATORS. It occasionally occurs that eminent investigators from other institutions desire to utilize the exceptional advantages of the Lick Observatory, for the solution of special problems. Opportunity for such researches will be provided in case no interference with the regular program of work would arise therefrom. REG.-21 |