Word: peru
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...members of the expedition to the new Harvard astronomical station, at Arequipa, Peru, arrived at their destination about a week ago and Professor Pickering of the observatory is daily expecting news from them. The latest letters from them were mailed at Panama. Mr, W. H. Pickering, a brother of Professor Pickering, is in charge of the expedition. It is expected that many important discoveries will accrue to science from the work which has just been begun at this mountain city of Peru...
...visiting committee on Jan. 10. An urgent request is made for a fire proof building for the records of observations, valuable instruments and especially the collection of about 27.000 glass photographic plates representing the stars and spectra of both the northern and southern heavens, the results of observations in Peru. California and Cambridge. These are now stored in a frame building, the only one available where they could be destroyed by fire in a few minutes. Besides the plates there is a large collection of manuscripts which if once destroyed could never be replaced. Since the last annual report...
...will be sent to join the first. They will leave on the 20th of this mouth, travelling by way of Panma, and reaching Arequipa, near which is the observatory, about the last of January. The work will be an extension of the work done here on the Southern stars. Peru is sufficiently far south to get a comprehensive view of the southern stars, and, moreover, being a country with little rain, has a very clear atmosphere. Two new instruments will be carried down, one to photograph a map and the spectrum of the stars, the other to measure their brightness...
...season to measure the light of all stars brighter than the fourteenth magnitude. It is now being used by Mr. G. E. Hale in an investigation of the solar spectrum. By the continued aid of Mrs. Draper, with that of the Boyden fund, an expedition has been sent to Peru, and will thus enable some of the most important investigations made here to be extended so as to include the southern stars. The plan of maintaining two stations, one in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern will permit all researches to include the whole sky, and thus give...
...last year's catalogue; 255 are regular first year students, 89 are new students not of the regular first year class. Seventy-two per cent. of the whole number are regular students. The statistics show that thirty-five states of the Union are represented, together with Canada, Ireland, Scotland, Peru, Brazil, Guatemala, Turkey, the West Indies, Hawaiian, Islands, Bulgaria, Japan, Panama, and France. Five hundred and thirty three students are from this state, 114 from other New England states, while 262 are from outside of New England and 17 of these are from foreign countries. The counties of this state...