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...Africa in order to determine the best location for this southern station of the University Observatory. Since its foundation at Arequipa, Professor Bailey has been in complete charge of the work there. In 1893 he established a meteorological station on the summit of the famous Andes peak, El Misti, which rears its head 19,000 feet above sea level. In this little hut which is by far the highest station erected for scientific observation in the world observations of the greatest importance were carried on for over 10 years...
...world. As much as was portable of the apparatus has been carried to the branch observatory at Arequipa, near by, where some meteorological work will be continued for an indefinite period. Among the stations which have been abandoned with the successful termination of the investigation, is El Misti, which is situated 19,000 feet above the sea level and is the highest station of its kind in the world...
...Professor Bailey has photographed a large number of excellent stellar charts of which some very fine specimens have been received in Cambridge. The main station at Arequipa controls many meteorological posts in the neighboring country. The most important of these is situated on the summit of the volcano El Misti, 19200 feet above the level of the sea. At this high post there has recently been set up an automatic meteorograph which runs without care for months at a time. This records the direction and velocity of the wind, and registers continuously the barometric pressure, the temperature, and the humidity...
...looting of the Arequipa observatory which was reported some months ago, was much exaggerated. Some savages broke into the instrument shelter on Misti summit and stole two instruments. This was the only loss suffered...
Down from Misti on the other side from Arequipa are several other stations, Mount Blanc (15,700 feet elevation), Hursos (13,400), Cazro (11,100), and Santa Ana (3,400). This forms a complete chain of stations, the most perfect in the world, reaching from Mollendo on the sea coast across the Andes...