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Observatory mathematicians today brought support to the statistics by which Charles G. Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., believes he has shown that there are important periodic changes in the sun's radiation, predictably affecting the earth's weather...
...believed that the University statistical analysis eliminates one of the principal grounds of dispute over Dr. Abbot's findings, based on years of regular observations of solar radiation at stations scattered in different parts of the world...
Died. Frederick Abbot Stokes, 82, founder (1881) and president (since 1890) of Frederick A. Stokes Co. (book publishers); after long illness; in Manhattan. Some of the authors his firm introduced: James Branch Cabell, Louis Bromfield, Percival Christopher Wren...
Died. Sonyu Otani, 53, onetime chief abbot of the Honganji sect of Japanese Buddhists; in 1937-38 Minister of Overseas Affairs; head of the Japanese-controlled North China Development Co.; of pneumonia; in Kalgan, China...
Among the professors signing the petition are Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Howard Mumford Jones, Samuel E. Morison '08, Kenneth B. Murdock '14, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Dean James M. Landis, Clarence Haring '07, Samuel H. Cross '12, William Y. Elliott, David W. Prall, Abbot P. Usher '04, and William J. Crozier...