Word: california
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...committee on Jan. 10. An urgent request is made for a fire proof building for the records of observations, valuable instruments and especially the collection of about 27.000 glass photographic plates representing the stars and spectra of both the northern and southern heavens, the results of observations in Peru. California and Cambridge. These are now stored in a frame building, the only one available where they could be destroyed by fire in a few minutes. Besides the plates there is a large collection of manuscripts which if once destroyed could never be replaced. Since the last annual report, in which...
Work under the boyden fund has been continued in Pern California and Cambridge in the last of which places Professor Pickering took personal charge of the work, making observations on Mars and experimenting in astronomical photography. Researches were made on the meteorology of the earth and on the nebulous region in Orion...
...Century is "going in" for California articles as violently, just at present, as ever it did for war articles in the days of its Civil War frenzy. In the January number Charles W. Shinn writes of "Pioneer Spanish Families in California;" John T. Doyle, on the "Missions of Alta California," and there is also a flourishing department of "Californiana." The California articles, as well as one on the old homesteads along the James, by Charles Washington Coleman, are accompanied by most artistic and picturesque illustrations. A foreigner seeing them must wonder why Americans can complain at the lack of picturesqueness...
Several men join the University today, coming from Williams, and the Universities of Kansas and California...
...serial story "In a Far Countree." The idea is original, being no less apparently than the adventures of a hunter who, awakening from a sleep, finds himself about the size of an ant. His curious adventures are vividly portrayed; "Shasta of Siskiyou," another unfinished article, treats of Northern California. It is by Charles Howard Shinn. Following this are articles on "r lash Light Photography," by W. I. L. Adams; "Two Days," a poem by C. P. Shermon; "A Vermont Fox Hunt," by O. W. Hard; "Miniary Cycling," by Charles Turner; "The Brook Trout," a poem by E McGaffey...