| Show Sun Blamed for Variable Climate I I ALWAYS I ET THE I BLAME FOR EVERY c THING THAT COPS 1 Z- Z S A result of ot the action of congress A AS at the last session In making a special appropriation of ot for the purpose Dr C. C G. G Abbot director of ot the he physical astro-physical observatory of the Smithsonian institution will be able to complete within the next year an Investigation which was begun In 1905 and which If it it arrives at the expected expected expected ex ex- ex- ex conclusion will result In in a discovery of the first rank such as asIs asIs asis Is not often made In astronomical work This Investigation Is expected to prove that the radiation of ot the sun varies varies varies va va- va- va ries and that this variation produces a corresponding variation in the temperature temperature temperature tem tem- of ot the earth While this discovery dis dis- covert covery If It made will have Its highest value for pure science it at will also be beof be of great benefit In its application to agriculture to long-distance long weather forecasts and other practical pur pur- poses To complete the tests which have I been and still are being made at the observatory here In Washington sea sealevel sealevel sealevel level at Mount Whitney three miles mlles elevation and at Mount Wilson Wilson Wil Wil- son one mile mlle elevation Dr Abbot finds It necessary to establish a station station station sta sta- tion in the cloudless region of ot southern southern southern south south- ern Mexico Observations then will willbe willbe willbe be taken talen at the new station and at Mount Wilson simultaneously and If it the two sets of measurements should agree the conclusion will be proved Congress has provided for thIs tills trip to Mexico by adding to the appropriation appropriation ap ap- ap regularly made for the work of ot the physical astro-physical observatory observatory tory to the Intense gratification of ot Dr Abbot and Secretary Walcott of the Smithsonian Institution as they are hopeful l of success attending the un un- un- un While the expedition will not set out for Mexico until next July when It Is hoped peaceful conditions will be restored In the southern republic republic republic re re- public the work of ot preparation already already already al al- al- al ready is under way The appreciation of ot the work that Dr Abbot is doing is shown in the fact tact that during the past year the Draper gold medal was awarded by bythe bythe bythe the National Academy of ot Sciences to Dr Abbot for tor his valuable research in solar radiation |
