Word: arequipa
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...members of the expedition to the new Harvard astronomical station, at Arequipa, Peru, arrived at their destination about a week ago and Professor Pickering of the observatory is daily expecting news from them. The latest letters from them were mailed at Panama. Mr, W. H. Pickering, a brother of Professor Pickering, is in charge of the expedition. It is expected that many important discoveries will accrue to science from the work which has just been begun at this mountain city of Peru...
...year and a half has elapsed since Professor Pickering of Harvard Observatory sent the first astronomical expedition, with Mr. W. H. Pickering in charge of it, will be sent to join the first. They will leave on the 20th of this mouth, travelling by way of Panma, and reaching Arequipa, near which is the observatory, about the last of January. The work will be an extension of the work done here on the Southern stars. Peru is sufficiently far south to get a comprehensive view of the southern stars, and, moreover, being a country with little rain, has a very...