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Harvard, he explains, has two stations. One is at Arequipa, eight thousand feet above the sea; the other at El Misti, nearly twenty thousand feet above the sea. In the lower station are all the valuable instruments and the headquarters of Professor Bailey, who is in charge of the astronomical work. In the upper station recording instruments of far less cost are placed, and these are visited once in each ten days by one of Professor Bailey's assistants. At such an elevation, no human being could remain and live; but the results, already obtained under the necessary conditions, have...
...other hand, an attack on this station is of course not nearly so serious as one upon the main station at Arequipa. An attack there would mean not only that priceless instruments were in danger but that even the lives of Professor Bailey and his assistants were not safe...
...reports of the work of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, the Astronomical Station at Arequipa, Peru, and the museums all are favorable, showing large increases in the number of students and satisfactory results in every...
Many photographs of the lunar eclipse of Nov. 15, 1891, were taken, both at Cambridge and at the Boyden Observatory in Arequipa, Peru. The examination of these photographs for the detection of a possible lunar satellite led only to a negative result...
...could be tested on a star. The results were satisfactory. Plans have been made and the foundations laid for a one-story brick building, with a sliding roof, in which it will be erected during its trial in Cambridge. After this it is proposed to send it to the Arequipa station in Peru...