Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Pittsburgh there was shipped recently to Bloemfontein, South Africa, the second of the three new mountings for telescopes at Harvard's new southern-hemisphere station on the Modder River in the Orange Free State. The mounting just completed is a fine specimen of the telescope maker's art. It is provided for the 24-inch Bruce photographic doublet which for thirty years has been in operation, with a rather inferior mounting, at the former Harvard station in Arequipa, Peru. The 24-inch Bruce has long been the Observatory's most powerful tool for studying southern stars and nebulae...
...procured for the 10-inch Metcalf triplet, an instrument specially suitable for studies of the faint Milky Way variable stars. The next new mounting to go south will be that of the new 60-inch reflecting telescope, which is to be the largest astronomical instrument in the southern hemisphere. Both the mirror and the mounting are in process of construction in Pittsburgh, and the mounting will probably be shipped before the end of the calendar year. The new reflector will be devoted to various studies, where great light-gathering power is essential. Among its problems will be the analysis...
...especially suited for planetary studies and for the newer types of spectrophotometry, inaugurated in recent years at the Harvard Observatory; an eight-inch photographic lens for work on standard magnitudes and variable stars; and a three-inch "policeman" which will steadily maintain the Harvard patrol on all of the southern sky. In addition there are two or three lenses that will be in occasional use for special investigations...
...days after alighting on Hawaiian grass, the four of the Southern Cross planned to do something that no man had ever before attempted: a 3,138-mile flight entirely over water, aiming at a pinhead in the Pacific called Suva in the Fiji Islands. The 850 inhabitants of Suva were atwitter with anticipation; the municipal council gave orders to cut down trees and remove electric wires in Albert Park, so as to make a landing field for the Southern Cross...
...board of managers. He has been a vice president since 1923. His brother, Robert Fresnel Loree, is vice president of the Guaranty Trust Co. of Manhattan, in charge of its foreign department. Their uncle, W. C. Loree, is a director of the Kansas City Southern Railway, of which their father is chairman...