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...America. From there he returned to Cambridge, where for six years he was connected with the University Observatory. From 1881-84 he was assistant astronomer at Yale, resigning his position there to carry on studies in Germany. He received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Wurzburg in 1886. In 1891 he was appointed Instructor in Astronomy and Physics at the University, and thus resumed his connection with his alma mater, which was not again severed until his death...
...only a short time ago that the remarkable discovery was made by Professor Rontgen of Wurzburg of a means of obtaining on a photographic plate, images of objects covered by wood or other material impervious to rays of light. It must therefore be a matter of great interest to the University to learn of the experiments now being carried on in the same line, and it would seem with much success, by Professor Trowbridge in the Physical Laboratory. An account of the experiments is given in another column. It is interesting to note how quickly the attention and study...
...Bonn, 225,000; Breslaw University, 350,000; Erlanger University, 147,000; Frieburg University, 270,000; Giessen University, 160,000; Gottingen, 400,000; Halle University, 220,000; Heidelberg, 300,000; Jena, 180,000; Kiel, 180,000; Konigsberg, 184,000; Leipsic, 600,000; Munich University, 322,000; Tubingen, 235,000; Wurzburg, 300,000; Vienna, 271,000. Italy has seven university libraries each exceeding 100,000 volumes; and Russia has five. In America, Amherst has 42,000; Ann Arbor, 40,000; Johns Hopkins, 12,000; Bowdoin, 37,000; Harvard, 259,000, besides 216,000 pamphlets; Dartmouth, 61,000; Cornell, 50,000; Yale...