Word: circular
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...view of the increasing need of the Department of Education for a separate library, a committee of seven has been formed to secure the funds and books necessary to establish one. In the circular which this committee is sending out is stated that "It is essential to the larger views and thorough study of education which the Department seeks to give its students that it should be able to put within their reach the world's important literature on education and the books of reference that their work demands...
...circulars aiming at the creation of a department library for the Department of Education have been drawn up and will be distributed in about a week. The establishment of a library in this department marks a distinct and important step in its advance, and is the beginning of a wider scheme which was prepared some time ago by Professor Hanus, but which cannot mature, probably for some years. One of these circulars outlines the growth of the Educational Department at Harvard and the other contains an appeal from the committee which was formed for the collection of funds. Their circular...
...circular was sent out yesterday by the Observatory giving the results of the photographs of the heavens in the region where the new star appeared. These photographs were taken before and after its appearance and include negatives made from the spectrum of the star. When the spectrum first appeared, it did not show the star to be different from those of the Orion type, but the change that took place later brought the spectrum into similarity with that of a typical new star. Photographic astronomy has not in the case of previous new stars, shown this change. The star...
...recently acquired about thirty interesting soapstone vessels which were collected in West Virginia by a physician interested in ethnology. Some of them are mere rudely shaped stones, and others are finished and polished dishes which give evidence of skillful workmanship. The vessels are of different shapes and sizes, the circular dishes varying from about four to twelve inches in diameter. They are believed to have been made by the Algonquin Indians, who once inhabited the country in which the soapstone quarries...
...recent circular issued by the Astronomical Observatory makes a plea for co-operation in observing variable stars. The number of variable stars of long period is now so great that the observation of many of them has been neglected. Although the investigation of the curves which represent the variation in the light of variables of small range can be more efficiently conducted by precise photometric observation, valuable work can be done on the long period stars by persons without extensive apparatus and experience...