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...Europe in 1866 and 1872 studying physical phenomena, paying especial attention to glaciers and volcanoes. He climbed Vesuvius while it was in action, and it was said that he was the first man to look into the crater of an active volcano...
...Observatory has issued a circular giving a series of measurements of the diameter of the bright spot surrounding the Linne crater on the moon's surface made before and after the passage of the shadow of the earth during the total lunar eclipse of October 16. The circular contains tables which show that the spot has increased in size during the last three years. Professor W.H. Pickering, who made the observations, believes that the explanation of the change in the size of the spot is that Linne is more active than heretofore, and that there is therefore surrounding it more...
During the recent eclipse of the moon Professor Pickering of the Astronomical Observatory ascertained that the bright spot around the Linne crater on the surface of the moon had increased considerably during the eclipse when deprived of the heat of the sun. Professor Pickering is inclined to the belief that this was caused by a light deposit of hoar frost. The observations bore him out, showing by the most accurate kind of micrometic measurements that the spot had increased during the time the moon was obscured. That the spot is a deposit of hoar frost and not light reflected from...
...views comprised about sixty places of interest, and were thrown on the white wall by the calcium light. Starting in Italy, the first picture was the Bay of Naples; then followed in quick succession the fish market at Naples, the Carthusian monastery, Virgil's tomb, Vesuvius, showing the present Crater, several views of Pompell and many more. Next, passing over to Sicily, photographs of Mount Etna, the old quarries at Syracuse, a beautiful Greek temple at Argumentum, and the bay of Falermo were shown...
Professor Dana, of Yale, last summer visited Hawaii, where he spent a week studying the crater of Kilauea. He had examined the volcano forty-seven years ago, and found that it had not changed as much as he had in the intervening years.- N. Y. World...