SOLAR PHYSICS OBSERVATORY.
GENEROUS OFFER FOR NEW ZEALAND. [Tress association telegram.] WELLINGTON, May I. At the conclusion of a lecture by Miss Alary Proctor (daughter of the eminent astronomer) this evening, Hon. R. H Rhodes announced that Miss" Proctor had received a communication from Mr. Thomas Cawthron, of Nelson, offering to build, equip, and endow a sojar physics observatory in the vicinity" of Nelson, at a cost of from £IO,OOO to £12,000. Up to the. present there is no such observatory (between India and America. Astronomers ' havo long desired to have such an observatory in this part of the world in order to complete the chain of solar observations,,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3818, 2 May 1913, Page 2
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109SOLAR PHYSICS OBSERVATORY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3818, 2 May 1913, Page 2
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