Word: california
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...past two or three years several expeditions have been sent from Harvard to various parts of the continent with the purpose of making a special study of one or more of the heavenly bodies. Of all these expeditions none have been more signally successful than the expedition sent to California in December of last year to make observations of the sun's eclipse which occurred on January 1. The party was under the charge of Professor William H. Pickering, and to him must be given much of the praise which is due the remarkable success attending the efforts...
...last bulletin of the Royal Astronomical Society contains the first of a promised series of letters by Professor Holden, formerly of Harvard University, but now director of the observatory of the University of California. These Jetters will set forth at length the observations which have been made by means of the Lick telescope. A comparison of the results of the observations taken by Prof. Holden by means of the Lick telescope, and the results obtained by means of the best English and American telescopes shows that the Lick lens is immeasurably superior to any of its predecessors. Formerly there...
President S. C. Bartlett of Dartmouth has left for California, and will probably not return before next June. Professor H. E. Parker will take his place. Professor A. S. Hardy will sail soon for Europe...
...spectrum. Other apparatus will take photographs of the blue region and the ultra-violet, or that which it is beyond the power of the eye to perceive. The plates will not be developed at Willows but they will be brought out leisurely either at Cambridge or at Southern California where the party is to go, after the eclipse is over, to work for the benefit of the University of California...
...Bailey will go from California to Peru where a branch of the Cambridge observatory is to be established for the purpose of studying the spectra of the stars in the southern heavens, which are not visible in Cambridge...