Word: coloration
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Zoological Club "Color Vision in Bees," by Professor G. H. Parker, in Zoological Laboratory, Room...
...being connected with undergraduate departments, the work of the Harvard Astronomical Laboratory, famous in all parts of the world for the valuable results of its observations, is not familiar to undergraduates. The studies of the Observatory might be roughly classified as Position, Motion, Brightness, Spectrum, and Color, all elements in the task of finding, classifying and determining the composition of the heavenly bodies...
...Color a Valuable Element...
Until recently, the color of stars has had but little scientific value. It has now become an exact science, the chief working principle of which is to photograph the star first by yellow light and second by blue light. A vast piece of work in this field is now in progress which will make, when finished, a valuable contribution to the laws of the universe...
...work are undertaken by it,--work which occupies the entire time of several observers for many years. At present, the observers are finishing up the matter of the motions of all the stars in the two zones. This work is almost ready for publication. The work of ascertaining the color of all the stars has been started within the last year. The most recent publications are Volume 76, Part I, by Professor King, showing that distant stars are redder than nearer stars; and Volume 78, Part I, by Professor Bailey, which is a study of the variable stars...