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...other places by funds administered at Harvard. During the past year the Observatory has lost the services of Prof. Rogers, for a long series of year an indefatigable worker with the meridian circle. As a memorial to the late Prof. Henry Draper, the study of the photography of stellar spectra undertaken by him is now, through the liberality of Mrs. Draper, being prosecuted on a scale appropriate to the advance in this department of science, and forms an important extension of the work of the Observatory. The meridian photometer has been kept in active service throughout the year, and leaves...
...London Academy says that the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society has been awarded conjointly to Prof. Pritchard of Oxford, and Professor Pickering of Harvard, for their valuable observations and researches in stellar photometry...
...certain start before making an emphasis, on the reculer pour mieux sauter principle. The lack of by-play was striking, albeit natural, and almost all the participants fell into the error, common to all American -born amateurs, of looking preternaturally solemn-as if the destinies of the stellar system weighed upon their shoulder-when they had nothing to say. Yet there was no sign of carelessness; every movement and position seem to have been well studied out beforehand. The thing that most detracted from the effectiveness of the play was, not so much the indistinct enunciation, as the untrained voices...
...particular stage in the process of the cooling of the solar system certain, in so far as we can judge to end before long altogether. If it be replied that progress, ceasing here, may reach a higher stage in some other planet, or in some other solar or stellar system, the lecturer insisted that such ideas have at least no sure foundation in experience, and that at best we see in the physical world a conflict of processes, some tending to growth others to decay. Thus we cannot be sure that progress is an essential and necessary fact...