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...result of long careful study of Climatic and atmospheric conditions in different parts of the Southern Hemisphere, the Harvard Observatory had decided to transfer its southern station from Arequipa, Peru, to a site in South Africa, probably in or near Bloemfontein. It is expected that observations will begin there within a few months...
Although many successful results have been obtained at Arequipa during the past 35 years, the meterological conditions during the southern summer are rather unfavorable to astronomical observations. For this reason the Observatory has been experimenting in various South African regions for the past few years. After extensive observations, it appears, according to the scientists investigating the subject that during the cloudy season, the sky of the South African plateau is much clearer than that prevailing in Peru...
Other names of the group celebrate famous wordly municipalities. Botolphia and Cantabria are the representatives in the court of the sky of Boston and Cambridge, and Portlandia and Winchester are the heavenly types of their respective boroughs. To two other asteroids Professor Shapley assigned the names Arequipa and Mandeville, commemorating the branches of the College Observatory. A personal touch is given to the general christening by the naming of three tiny bodies after Dr. Metcalf, Professor G. E. Bond, the first director of the Observatory, and the late Professor E. C. Pickering, director for 40 years...
Harlow Shapley, Director of the Observatory, received an award to enable him to continue his study of the stars and to purchase instruments for the University observatories at Cambridge and at Arequipa, Peru...
...been connected with the University Observatory since 1893, and since 1912 has been Phillips Professor of astronomy. He became acting director of the Observatory in 1919. Less than two years ago he was given the degree of doctor of Science by the University of San Ajustin at Arequipa, and at the same time was made Honorary Professor of Astronomy at that University...