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...telescopes of different sizes were used, the aperture of the largest being eleven inches. Most of the plates, which were taken, have been developed, but they show only one prominent meteor of the first magnitude. In all, forty or fifty meteors were counted, which were small, with few exceptions. Bright meteors were scarce, and their trails short for the most part. The immediate results of the observations were not specially prominent, but as this was the first organized work of the kind in recent years, as much was accomplished as could have been expected...
Altogether, with graduates and undergraduates deeply interested in the crew, with a popular and efficient captain; a large number of experienced men, and the same old coach, the prospect for a good crew for '98 is very bright...
...Henry Draper Memorial differ in two respects from those ordinarily taken elsewhere. Instead of using a spectroscope with a slit, in which but one star is photographed at a time, large prism is placed over the object glass of the telescope and thus spectra of all the bright stars in the field of view are obtained. The number of stars photographed simultaneously is still further increased by substituting for the object glass a portrait lens like that used by photographers, only larger. The field of view is in this way increased from two degrees square to ten degrees square...
...results obtained show an important resemblance between meteors and stars having bright lines in their spectra, and may aid in determining the conditions of temperature and pressure in these bodies. Since bright meteors sometimes appear during the November meteoric shower a special effort will be made here to obtain photographs of them, both trails and spectra, tonight...
...that nearly $15,000 has been raised. In New York an equal sum has been subscribed toward the new boat house and although the collection has now ceased temporarily it will soon be taken up with renewed vigor. Thus the prospects for the speedy fulfillment of the plans seem bright...