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...issued by Mr. Edward C. Pickering, director of Harvard College Observatory, which describes arrangements that have been made in order to render the transmission of astronomical intelligence more speedy and accurate. An association of about 50 European observatories has recently been formed, with its headquarters at the Royal observatory, Kiel, Germany, directed by Prof. Krueger, who has taken charge of the business of the association. Connections by cable have been established with South America, South Africa and Australia, and the Harvard College Observatory has been requested to co-operate with it in the United States, by receiving and distributing...
...dispatch has been received at the Harvard Observatory from Kiel, Prussia, announcing the discovery of a new planet...
...among the several colleges; British Museum, 1, 500,000; Sarbonne (Paris), 125,000; Berlin University, 200,000; Bonn, 225,000; Breslaw University, 350,000; Erlanger University, 147,000; Frieburg University, 270,000; Giessen University, 160,000; Gottingen, 400,000; Halle University, 220,000; Heidelberg, 300,000; Jena, 180,000; Kiel, 180,000; Konigsberg, 184,000; Leipsic, 600,000; Munich University, 322,000; Tubingen, 235,000; Wurzburg, 300,000; Vienna, 271,000. Italy has seven university libraries each exceeding 100,000 volumes; and Russia has five. In America, Amherst has 42,000; Ann Arbor, 40,000; Johns Hopkins, 12,000; Bowdoin...