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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 588 
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Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, Chief of the Bureau, has just returned from a reconnaissance trip to determine the sites for excavation, and will revisit Florida in January to continue his researches.

[[underlined]] The National Zoological Park [[/underlined]].

He went on to say that the inclosures and shelters for deer, wild sheep, and goats, etc., on the area recently graded in the western part of the Park have been completed and the animals for which they were intended have been transferred to them. This exhibit is now well in view both from the walks and from a main driveway through the Park.

Through an arrangement for exchange of animals a young African rhinoceros has been added to the collection; the first rhinoceros that the Park has owned.

A second edition of the Popular Guide to the Park has been issued, the first edition having been exhausted.

The number of persons visiting the Park from July 1 to November 30 was more than 1,200,000.

[[underlined]] Astrophysical Observatory. [[/underlined]]

The Secretary continued: Dr. C. G. Abbot, Assistant Secretary, was engaged in astrophysical work at Mount Wilson, California, from July 20 to October 20. His principal investigation was upon the heat of the spectrum of the stars. It seems almost incredible that any instrument can detect the heat of the stars, which look like fireflies, still less, accurately measure the heat after it is spread out in a long spectrum by a 60[[degree symbol]] glass prism. But employing the Nichols radiometer, and instrument on the same principle as the little blackened vanes which revolve in the sun-light in the optician's window, Dr. Abbot succeeded in getting very accurate and satisfactory representations of the distribution of the heat in the spectra of nine of the brightest stars besides the sun.
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