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...inch telescope, starting anew in 1885 after the invention of the dry plate, the Harvard Collection of celestial photographs is the most complete in the whole world. Southern stars not visible in Cambridge were photographed in Arequipa, Peru, from 1891 to 1926, when the station was removed to Bloemfontein, South Africa...
...southern station of the Harvard Observatory situated in Peru has now been moved completely to South Africa because of unfavorable weather conditions at its location in South America. A base has been established 14 miles from the town of Bloemfontein and it was announced yesterday that the contract has been let for the construction of seven buildings which are to house the telescopes and provide for offices, a library, servants quarters and garage, as well as a residence for the superintendent...
...Harvard' Observatory in Cambridge has just received the deeds of the land upon which the new southern observatory is to be built. The land is the gift of the city of Bloemfontein which purchased it from Boer farmers and added it to a small tract which was already owned by the University. The city is also storing the telescopes, which cannot be established until the buildings have been finished, as well as furnishing the architects and engineers for the proposed improvements...
...following article by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, on the Harvard Astronomical Laboratory in Bloemfontein, South Africa, is reprinted from the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin...
From Pittsburgh there was shipped recently to Bloemfontein, South Africa, the second of the three new mountings for telescopes at Harvard's new southern-hemisphere station on the Modder River in the Orange Free State. The mounting just completed is a fine specimen of the telescope maker's art. It is provided for the 24-inch Bruce photographic doublet which for thirty years has been in operation, with a rather inferior mounting, at the former Harvard station in Arequipa, Peru. The 24-inch Bruce has long been the Observatory's most powerful tool for studying southern stars and nebulae...