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...British Embassy drew blanks, newshawks began to do their own research. They discovered that the three bits of land had been claimed for the U. S. in 1860 under the terms of the Guano Islands Act. Jarvis, a treeless, scrubless coral patch less than two sq. mi. in area, was originally discovered by the U. S. sailing ship Eliza Thomas in 1821. In the days when the nitrates from bird-droppings were worth big money, Jarvis was an important place for guano hunters...
...catalogue contains descriptions of 7,889 galaxies in the Horologium area, almost all of them hitherto unknown, and nearly all of them fainter than the fifteenth magnitude. It was compiled from a series of long exposure photographs taken with the Bruce telescope at the University's southern observatory in Bloomfontein, South Africa...
...area surveyed in the catalogue, while containing 7,889 galaxies, each of which fills as much as 5,000,000,000,000 cubic light years, covers somewhat less than one percent of the total...
...catalogue of the galaxies in the Horologium area is part of the general survey of external galaxies in progress at the University. Objects are recorded according to position, brightness, diameter, form, and structure...
This earlier catalogue included almost exclusively objects brighter than the fifteenth magnitude, and covered the whole sky. The present catalogue deals, for the most part, with objects fainter than the fifteenth magnitude, and confines itself to a very small area...