Word: pern
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...photographing of the heavens has continued at Cambridge and at Pern by the Draper memorial fund, where at Chosica Mr. B dev has taken 1,309 photographs including almost the entire southern heaven from 20 degrees south of the equator to the south pole...
Work under the boyden fund has been continued in Pern California and Cambridge in the last of which places Professor Pickering took personal charge of the work, making observations on Mars and experimenting in astronomical photography. Researches were made on the meteorology of the earth and on the nebulous region in Orion...
...August the instruments on Wilson's Peak in California were sent to Cambridge for shipment to Areguipa in Pern, the location chosen for further observations. Great service was rendered the expedition by Hon. John Hicks, American minister to Pern, and Senor L. L. De Rumma of Areguipa, under whose direction valuable meteorological observations were made...