Word: peru
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...library of the Observatory has been increased since the time of the last report by the addition of 218 volumes and 529 pamphlets. The total numbers of volumes and pamphlets on October 1, 1894, were 7710 and 9989 respectively. As the station at Arequipa, Peru, will be maintained permanently, it is desirable, owing to its remoteness, that it should have a library of its own. Copies of astronomical and meteorological works sent there direct or through the Observatory, will be gratefully received and will prove of much value...
...number 50 Bromfield Street, Boston, until the 15th of this month, the collection of photographs of heavenly bodies which was a part of the Harvard exhibit at the World's Fair, and at the San Francisco Fair. Most of the photographs were taken at the Harvard Observatory near Arequipa, Peru...
Attack on the Observatory in Peru.Rumors have been circulated to the effect that the Harvard Observatory in Peru has been attacked and that injury has been done to the valuable instruments. Professor Pickering entertains strong hopes that these rumors are ill-founded, and that they will prove to have been started by the raid on the station situated at El Misti...
...instruments which were stolen were purchased for a comparatively small sum but their value was greatly enhanced by the difficulty of transportation to Peru, and to the high mountain summit...
Telegraphic communication is so costly as to be practically excluded. News by mail takes a month to come from Peru to Cambridge, so that it will probably be some weeks before it is definitely known whether the main station itself has been disturbed. As the whole of Peru is in an unsettled condition, being in the hands of insurrectionists, the assurance will be welcome that nothing more serious has happened than the raid on El Misti...