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How to Secure Scientific Returns for Grants

The American Astronomical Society met last August at a summer resort on Lake Erie. About 30 astronomers read papers and in a large portion of these cases the appropriation of a few hundred dollars would have permitted a great extension in these researches. A small appropriation would enable him to employ an assistant who in a short time could do equally good work. The application of this method to 100 or 1000 stars would then be only a matter of time and money. In many cases it would be found that after working for years under most unfavorable conditions he had developed a method of great value but must now stop for want of means.

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