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...Haven, Conn. For the first time in its history the Academy awarded its Henry Draper medal for research in astronomical physics to a woman: Harvard's Dr. Annie Jump Cannon, for her compilation of the Draper Memorial Catalog of 225,000 stars classified according to their spectra. Small Dr. Cannon is still searching them out. The Academy then turned to: Sabre-toothed Tigerst on whom nature played a sorry trick. "With small brain and powerful body and with the ferocity of both, this cat was more insistent on reaching and closing with its prey than probably any other animal...
...Author. In 1916 "Emanuel Morgan" and "Anne Knish" published Spectra, a little book of free verse so cleverly written it fooled many a critic into serious praise. "Anne Knish" was Arthur Davison Ficke; "Emanuel Morgan" was Witter Bynner. A Harvardman, tall and dark, with a high, shining forehead, Bynner has been through the literary mill: as assistant editor of McClure's Magazine, advisory editor to publishers, instructor of English, lecturer on poetry. His two sidelines are poetry and American-Indian and Chinese art. With Kiang Kang-hu he translated a Chinese anthology, Jade Mountain. He lives in Santa...
...large mirror, the details of mounting, or of the net cost of construction, which is being financed, together with the other additions to the plant, by contributions from the University, the Rockefeller Foundation and friends of the department. Accessory equipment will include apparatus for the study of spectra and light variations of the stars, their temperatures, dimensions, and motions. The equipment already in the possession of the plant has been particularly suited to covering fields of large stars; the new reflector will specialize in the closer analysis of individual stars and planets...
...subjects of the six lectures are as follows: 1. "Study of Starlight: brightness, colors, spectra"; 2. "Temperatures, Dimensions, and Masses of the Stars: relations between mass and luminosity"; 3. "Variable and Temporary Stars: relation between period and luminosity"; 4. "Interpretation of Stellar Spectra: ionization and consequences, stellar atmospheres"; 5. "The Same, continued"; 6. "The Interior of a Star: problems of constitution and Evolution...
...information, star distances, photometry, and nebulae; Dr. W. J. Fisher, on astronomical notations and meteors; Professor W. H. Pickering, on planets and lunar names, Dr. W. J. Luyten '24, on star distances and statistics; Professor E. S. King, photometry and double stars; Dr. A. J. Cannon, variable stars and spectra; D. B. Pickering, variable stars; Dr. C. H. Payne, spectra; Professor H. H. Plasket, spectra...