Word: bruce
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Thomas Bruce was appointed British minister to Constantinople. The architect whom be had with him, urged him to have casts and drawings made of the remaining sculptures of the Parthenon. Failing to interest Pitt, the prime minister at this time, in his plan, Lord Elgin turned to English artists, but the demands of these were so far beyond his means that he abandoned his project for the time. On his way to Constantinople he stopped at Palermo where he succeeded in obtaining the services of an Italian artist with five assistants. With these he proceeded to Athens...
During the summer vacation, the astronomers at the observatory have been by no means idle, but even harder at work than in the winter. The most interesting piece of news from this department is the generous gift of $50,000, by Miss C. W. Bruce, of New York, for a photographic telescope. The instrument will be made with a double lens, a new form not yet adopted by European astronomers, but considered by Professor Pickering far superior to single lens telescopes. It will have an aperture of twenty-four inches. Its focal length will be short, and consequently it will...
Griswold, coverpoint, Bruce...
...following men are still behind time: W. Abbot, J. G. Bailey, F. G. Balch, C. Bohlen, G. Brock, H. G. Bruce, A. Cunningham, B. F. Curtis, W. E. Fowler, J. F. Harlow, E. B. Harvey, G. Hay, W. P. Henderson; C. S. Harvey, W. R. Kimball, L. S. Laitham, F. L. Payson, J. H. Robinson, H. N. Sampson, H. S. Sanford, G. E. N. Ullrich...
...HOPKINSON, Secretary.THE following men are still behind time: W. Abbot, J. G. Bailey, F. G. Balch, C. Bohlen, G. Brock, H. G. Bruce, A. Cunningham, B. F. Curtis, W. E. Fowler, J. F. Harlow, E. B. Harvey, G. Hay, W. P. Henderson; C. S. Harvey, W. R. Kimball, L. S. Laitham, F. L. Payson, J. H. Robinson, H. N. Sampson, H. S. Sanford, G. E. N. Ullrich...