Word: regional
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Thirty-one photographs of the region including the new star near Chi Aurigae, recently discovered in Scotland, were taken at the Harvard Observatory from...
...Bolles' rambles have been within those limits. The chief charm of the book is, perhaps, its simplicity and its unaffectednes; and who knows but that Mr. Bolles' book may do for the surroundings of Cambridge what Scott's "Lady of the Lake" did for the picturesque lake region of Scotland...
Harvard is unusually strong in the states west of the Mississippi. In the Chio valley, on the contrary, is Yale's stronghold. Before the war a large part of her many graduates settled in that region, and made a great boom for Yale. Since the war, however, Harvard has been sending more of her men out West and the results are now showing. This growing interest in Harvard is likely to result in a still further representation in our college and graduate school from the western schools and colleges...
...larger telescope is never moved from Arequipa. Investigations made here are, conducted with regard-first to the meteorology of the globe, with particular reference to cloudiness and other phenomena affecting the choice of astronomical stations; secondly, to to the fundamental principles of astronomical photography; thirdly, to the great nebulous region comprising a large part of the constellation Orion; fourthly, to the best form of standard light; and finally to other details of quantitative photometric work...
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...