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...PROSPECT UNION LECTURES. "The Solar System." Professor W. H. Pickering. Prospect Union...
...University Observatory has made preparations for a special observation of the transit of the planet Mercury, which will, take place today. Mercury, crosses the base of the sun only about eight times in 100 years, the last transit occurring in 1894. The planet will leave the solar disk at 9.10 A. M. but it will be almost impossible to distinguish its passage without the aid of a field glass. The transits are valuable in determining the planet's course, and the Observatory is as favorably situated as any other in the United States for viewing the one which occurs today...
Last summer an expedition was sent to the eastern Atlantic to explore the atmosphere above the northeast trade-wind, and during the total solar eclipse of August 30 meteorological observations were made at Burgos, Spain...
...subjects for the graduate prizes were divided into three groups and one prize of $200 was awarded in each group as follows: group 1--for the best essay on Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or Engineering, to C.L.B. Shuddemagen 1G., for an essay entitled "Some Facts and Theories in Solar Physics"; group 2--for the best essay on Biology, Geology or Anthropology, to A.F. Blakeslee, A.M. '00, for an essay entitled "Sexual Reproduction in the Mucorineae"; group 3--for the best essay on Ancient Languages or Literature, to D.P. Lockwood 2G., for an essay entitled "Pliny the Younger, an Appreciation...
PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM. "Recent Methods for determining Standards of Wavelength," Mr. L. L. Campbell; "The Variation in the Solar Constant," Mr. H. N. Davis. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...