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...more. In recent months, two major expeditions have been preparing assaults on the spectacular snowcrest of Salcantay, 20,551 ft. above sea level. One, an American-French group, has been reconnoitering the peak in an airplane; the other, a Swedish-Italian group, has been warming up by scaling other Peruvian slopes...
...Pickering that first sent the Harvard astronomers south of the border. His assistants were not content with the Rockies, but moved to the Peruvian Andes where they explored the entire country for a suitable post location. Their first station was at Mt. Harvard near Lima at an altitude of 6600 feet. But the station that they finally decided to use was on Arequipa, slightly above 3,000 feet. There they found perfect atmospheric conditions in the long winter nights to take photographs not possible at Cambridge. A telescope increases its power by a factor of five, when operated under these...
...developments recorded at the Peruvian station pushed Pickering into the limelight as one of the top astronomers in the world. A newspaper of the day stated that. "His discoveries will add another laurel to his great institution...
Down in Harvard Chops in Orange Free State, eight telescopes cover the entire southern heaven and visible parts of the northern sky. The equipment currently contained there was transferred from the Peruvian station when it closed down in 1926, and is supplemented by modern material and the ADH instrument...
...Peruvian bill was the only stolen property ever found on McLeod's person. When arrested in New York, he told police that a man had given it to him in a Manhattan bar--according to testimony that the police gave yesterday...