ASTRONOMICAL CLUB TO HOLD DINNER TONIGHT

Tonight at the Commander Hotel, in Cambridge, the Bond Astronomical Club will hold its annual dinner, at which it is expected that an important step in the growth of the Harvard Observatory will be announced. At the dinner, which is scheduled to begin at 7 o'clock, Odin Roberts '86, Professor Frederick Slocum, of Wesleyan University, Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, and Miss Margaret Harwood, director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory at Nantucket, are to be the speakers of the evening.

Club Rapidly Expanding

The Bond Astronomical Club, of which Shapley is one of the three counsellors, is headed by Professor W. R. Ransom, of Tufts College, and meets periodically at the Harvard Observatory. It was founded for the purpose of bringing amateur study to bear upon the problems of modern stellar science, and consists of prominent professional and amateur scientists. Its rapid growth was one of the leading causes for the recently announced annex to the main section of the University plant, since existing accommodations are proving too small for the frequent meetings of the club.

In his talk Shapley plans to outline the coming radical expansion in the existing Observatory group, and will describe an additional feature of prime importance to the future of the study of stars at Harvard.