Word: arequipa
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...branches has been selected and set up as it is to appear at the Paris Exposition. One hundred and four square feet of wall space have been reserved in the United States section for the exhibit, which will consist of sixteen transparencies from original plates taken at Cambridge and Arequipa, three wing frames holding about two hundred pictures of star clusters and planets, and twenty wall pictures of work done at observatories. The exhibits are arranged in order to a height of thirteen feet...
...completed, it will be tried first at Cambridge and afterward sent to Jamaica, where a site in the western part of the island suitable for an observatory was selected last year by Professor W. H. Pickering. After observations have been made there, the telescope will be removed to Arequipa, Peru...
...development of the college elective system in the Law School will be set forth. The exhibit of the Observatory will represent the work of the United States in astronomy and all the space necessary for this exhibition will be granted. It will consist of reports from the Cambridge, Arequipa and Blue Hill observatories. Among the collection of photographs of heavenly bodies will be the stellar charts and photographs of stellar spectra produced with the aid of the great photographic telescope now in South America, the gift of Miss C. W. Bruce of New York. There also will be an exhibit...
...even those of the second class. The photographic plates are housed in a modern brick building, but the other buildings are all old wooden structures, liable to destruction by fire, together with the instruments, manuscripts and books. The things chiefly needed now are a large telescope for the Arequipa Station, a library building, and a modern machine shop...
...principal work at the station at Arequipa, Peru, has been the obtaining of charts of clusters and of the brighter stars. The work has remained under the direction of Professor Bailey, and Professor Upton, of Brown University, has also spent a large part of the year there...