It was only a short time ago that the remarkable discovery was made by Professor Rontgen of Wurzburg of a means of obtaining on a photographic plate, images of objects covered by wood or other material impervious to rays of light. It must therefore be a matter of great interest to the University to learn of the experiments now being carried on in the same line, and it would seem with much success, by Professor Trowbridge in the Physical Laboratory. An account of the experiments is given in another column. It is interesting to note how quickly the attention and study of scientists the world over is directed to a matter like this, almost at the moment that the first initiatory discovery is made known. If the latter proves in this case to be of the great scientific and practical value which is predicted for it, the work done by the Harvard laboratory in the direction of further development will be watched with the greatest interest, not only by members of the University, but by the whole country.
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Astronomical Discovery.
