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...Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard College Observatory, has been selected to deliver the annual Halley Lecture at Oxford University on June 18. This lecture, which is delivered each year by some well-known astronomer, is named for Edmund Halley, who lived during the last half of the seventeenth, and first half of the eighteenth centuries. Halley, particularly famous for his cometary researches, encouraged Isaac Newton to the publication of his "Principia" and to the announcement of the law of gravitation...
...Shapley has chosen for the subject of his address "The Center of the Galaxy," and will present an account of his researches on the extent and structure of the Milky...
...July, Dr. Shapley, as president of the American Section, will attend the meetings of the International Astronomical Union in Leiden, Holland, and of the Astronomische Gesellschaft in Heidelberg, Germany...
Skjellerup's comet, due to appear on the western horizon this evening, may have been sighted just after sunset yesterday from the Harvard Observatory, it was learned at a late hour last night from Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the College Observatory...
...comet, which will be visible for two weeks following its first appearance, will be of the second magnitude and probably brighter than it was at first expected, said Professor Shapley. Skjellerup's comet is named for its discoverer, an amateur astronomer of Melbourne, Australia, and was first identified as previously undiscovered, according to existing records, on December...