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...Southern California, visiting Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, Redlands, and San Bernadino. At San Bernadino he saw the superintendent of schools, Alex. E. Fry, whose writings upon the teaching of geography are widely known. He then visited Mt. Wilson where Harvard once had an observatory. Afterwards he visited Lick Observatory and saw the fine equipment of Professor Holden. At Santa Cruz he saw some of the big trees of California, many of which were 300 feet high and 60 feet in circumference. After this he went to Leland Stanford Jr. University where he experienced a rather sharp shock of earthquake...
Columbia College possesses the famous Rutherford photographs which are the earliest made photographs of the moon and were taken in the Lick Observatory...
Professor Burnham and Schaeberle, astronomers of the Lick observatory, who arrived in New York from Trinidad lately, will spend a few days here to make a systematic study of the photographs they made of the solar eclipse at Cayenne on December...
Professor S. W. Burnham, chief of the eclipse expedition sent from the Lick observatory to South America has announced that the observation of the eclipse of the sun December 22 was entirely successful and that the expedition is now on its way home...
...well known writers will furnish the fiction for the new volume, which is to be unusually strong, including several novels, illustrated novelettes, and short stories. "The Women of the French Salons" are to be described in a brilliant series of illustrated papers. The important discoveries made with the great Lick Telescope at San Francisco (the largest telescope in the world) and the latest explorations relating to prehistoric America (including the famous Serpent Mound, of Ohio) are to be chronicled in The Century...