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...Bailey is the man responsible for the founding of the "Harvard" station at Arequipa, Peru, which has been maintained since 1892. He was originally sent down in 1889 and travelled up and down the west coast of Africa in order to determine the best location for this southern station of the University Observatory. Since its foundation at Arequipa, Professor Bailey has been in complete charge of the work there. In 1893 he established a meteorological station on the summit of the famous Andes peak, El Misti, which rears its head 19,000 feet above sea level. In this little...
Professor Bailey's own research work has dealt largely with the meteorological problems of Peru and with the southern stars which he has photographed with several high powered telescopes at the Arequipa Station. This work has been of the greatest importance to astronomical research, partly because of the station's high altitude of 8000 feet and partly because of its southern location. A large proportion of the material that is used in the astronomical investigations at the Observatory is obtained from the Arequipa station...
...unsatisfactory conditions is the University observatory in Arequipa, Peru, it was decided to establish a branch station at San Jose, halfway between Arequipa and the Port of Mollendo of several months...
...station will be opened today by Dr. J. S. Paraskevopoulos, who is in charge of the Boyden station at Arequipa. It is located 4850 feet above sea region that has been found to be at most cloudless, even when Arequipa a level of 8000 feet in cloud-board...
...resignation of Professor S. I. Bailey, G. '88, Phillips Professor of Astronomy for the last 12 years, and director of the Harvard Astronomical Observatory at Arequipa, Peru, last year, was accepted by the Fellows...