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Mapping of 300,000 galaxies each containing perhaps a billion stars was pointed to as part of the future work of the Harvard Observatory by Harlow Shapley, professor of Astronomy in an address before the National Academy of Sciences at Ann Arbor, Michigan yesterday. Professor Shapley stated that over 75,000 galaxies, comparable in magnitude to the Milky Way galaxy, had already been charted in the heavens...
...invitation of Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard College Observatory, and Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, the Twenty-First Annual meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers will be held Saturday at the Harvard Observatory. The organization, which includes over 300 members and is world-wide in extent, will have members present at the meeting from considerable portions of the United States...
...first meeting of any importance to take place at the new Observatory, which was dedicated early last September. Following the election of officers and council members, opportunity will be given for the presentation and discussion of papers. Tea will be served at the invitation of Dr. and Mrs. Shapley at 4.30 o'clock. The meeting will adjourn at 5.30 o'clock for the return to Cambridge...
...Oxford and Duke enticed from Harvard. Editor of Character & Personality is Dr. Robert Saudek, learned London interpreter of handwriting. Associate editor is Ernest Seeman, manager of Duke University Press and a persistent collaborator -with the late Aviation Pioneer Samuel Langley in experiments on flights of vultures; with Astronomer Harlow Shapley on light rays and energy of insects; with the late Thomas Alva Edison and Louise Guest Rice (Manhattan graphologist) in a system of character analysis...
...Observatory. One day was solemn. The seers of the heavens trooped before a big, partially completed building to watch & hear Professor Harlow Shapley, head of the Harvard Observatory, place some Pickering photographs in a copper box with some other documents. This, he said, he was doing to enlighten astronomers five centuries from now as to how far advanced the present-day astronomer...