Show LAID ASIDE AS PRIZE For Determining the Velocity of Light Nearly 60 years have elapsed since Uriah A Boydcn a Boston engineer deposited 1000 with tho trustees of the Franklin Institute to bo awarded as a prize for determining by experiment r experi-ment whether all rays of light and other physical rays are transmitted with the same velocity It was not until 1 un-til this summer that the prize was won Mr Boyden doubted the accuracy F of the experiments of Baron von r Wrede in 1840 tending to show that light and radiant heat travel at different RkX dif-ferent rates of speed and ho hoped to have the matter established by a more careful series of tests Dr Paul R Ftd K x Heyl of the Central high school of ytxa Philadelphia experimented on the k rt rays of Algol a variable star in the constellation Perseus and established to his own satisfaction and to the satisfaction of a committee ot expert r physicists that tho visible and the ultraviolet ul-traviolet rays of the spectrum travel with tho same degree of speed and 5 tho prize has been awarded to him His paper on the subject was printed In tho Journal of the Franklin Institute 3faUr for August The accumulation of the fund for nearly 50 years remains and the judges in the contest have recommended recom-mended that the sum he set aside as n a J y ya prize for similar successful experiment experi-ment regarding tho speed of the Intro > r ° 1 red rays r |