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...most important event mentioned is the completion of the new fire-proof brick building and the transfer to it of about 30,000 stellar photographs. Three expeditions have been sent out to the Harvard station in Peru during the past year and two have already returned while the third has begun work successfully. The entire income of the Paine fund, one of the largest gifts ever made to astronomy, is this year for the first time available for the use of the observatory. Notwithstanding this important increase in the resources, the expenses due to additional undertakings have also become greater...
...annual report, just issued, Professor Pickering says the Harvard Observatory astronomers have made not a few valuable and interesting discoveries. They took 2777 stellar photographs in Cambridge and nearly 2000 in Peru. By means of these no less than seven new variable stars have been discovered, and the number of stars of the fifth type has been increased by eight, making the total number forty-five. The spectrum of the nebula surrounding some of the stars is unlike that of any other gaseous nebula...
Arthur Searle's "The Discovery of a new Stellar System" is an astronomical article written in popular form...
...spectroscope valued at $2,000 has recently been presented to Princeton. It will be used principally for stellar photography, and is the fourth in size of its kind in the country...
Among the gifts for immediate use are the following: an additional sum of $10,000 from Mrs. Henry Draper of N. Y., to be expended by the Director of the Observatory in prosecuting the researches in the photography of stellar spectra, with which the late Dr. Henry Draper's name is honorably associated; subscriptions towards the construction of a fire-proof building for storing valuable manuscripts and photographic plates at the Observatory, paid to Aug. 1st, '91 amount to $1800; subscriptions paid to Aug. 1st, '91, amount to $4,100 for cases and furniture for Prof. Cooke's addition...