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...purpose of stowing photographic plates and will be ready for use this winter; extensive additions have been made in the residence itself. The most important feature however is the large building put up to accomadate the large Bruce telescope intended for use in the new Harvard Observatory station in Peru...
...establishing of the Harvard station at Peru has opened up the greatest possibilities for our University in the line of development of astronomical study. A great drawback to accurate observation and the use of large apparatus at Cambridge has been the atmospheric conditions. In Peru, however, the atmospheric conditions are most extraordinarily favorable for the study the heavens; although the chief object of the recent very successful expedition to Peru by Prof. W. H. Pickering was the photographing of the planet Mars, yet the careful visual observations were made at the same time which have led to most interesting results...
With the construction of the Peruvian station however with the clearest atmosphere in the world, there is a pressing need for an instrument of the most powerful order. In consequence of this Prof. Edward C. Pickering has edited an eloquent pamphlet, calling for $200,000 for the manufacture and establishment of a suitable telescope. Money donated for such an object could not fail to bring immediate results, and it is hoped that this way now opening for Harvard may soon be clear for the earning of highest honors at the hands of her professors in the study of astronomy...
...matter for state legislation. (2) The central authority responsible to foreign nations for wrongs done subjects. (3) A State quarantine law controls vessels and goods only within its own territory. (4) A port of entry and the best site for a quarantine station may be in different states: Forum, Oct. (5) The lives of our citizens and our whole commerce is at the mercy of local ignorance or negligence. (c) National quarantine laws grant too much authority to the separate states: U. S. Stat...
...Eleven. - The following men will be at the B. & M. station, Haymarket Sq . at 12.45 sharp, to go to Exeter: Whitney, Lee, L Davis, Williams, McDonald, Wrenn, Ladd, Cabot, Earle, Gardner, Gleason, Frothingham, Brooks, Hubbell. Get dinner first...