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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 766
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| Brought Forward | $12,000
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B. Mathematical Laboratory.  3 years.

New Project.  Office work and publication at the Smithsonian Institution to collect and amplify mathematical developments, and publish and loan for convenient use in physics and engineering

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Salary of mathematician | $18,000 |
Salary of clerk-computer | 5,800 |
Purchase of books for loan library | 3,000 |
Publication of formulae and tables | 4,500 |
Unallotted | [[underlined]] 2,700 [[/underlined]] |
| $33,000 |

Average Expense per year | | $11,000
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C. Radiation - its influence on terrestrial climates and the life of plants and animals.  3 years.

New project, branching out from existing radiation work of Astrophysical Observatory.  Partly laboratory work at Smithsonian; partly field work at botanical laboratories and at hospitals; partly grants to chosen fellows at colleges; partly publication by the Smithsonian.

Object: To determine exact wave lengths and intensities of radiation and their life reactions. Involves chemical as well as physical investigations.

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Purchase of apparatus and supplies | $30,000 |
Field expenses of travel, subsistence and labor | 20,000 |
Salaries of Chief Chemist and Chief Physicist | 30,000 |
Salaries of 4 assistants | 36,000 |
Allotments to outside workers | 20,000 |
Publication | [[underlined]]8,000[[/underlined]] |
| $144,000 |

Average Expense per year | | $48,000
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D. Upper Air studied by means of Rockets.  3 years.

Continuation of work of Dr. Goddard in which the Institution has already excended $10,000.  Involves perfection of the high-flying rocket; devising of automatic apparatus for taking samples of upper air, and analysis of it; development of rockets for daily meteorological records at various altitudes; devising automatic spectroscope for high level observations of sun and stars, etc.

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