Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Appendix B To Report Of Committee On Observatories Letters Relating To Southern And Solar Observatories. CONTENTS. I. Correspondence relating to proposed Southern Observatory 106 Extracts from Confidential Statement 106 Letters from correspondents 108 H. H. Turner, Director University Observatory, Oxford 108 M. Loewy, Director Paris Observatory H2 H. Bruns, Director Royal Observatory, Leipsic 116 F. Kustner, Director Royal Observatory, Bonn 117 H. Seeliger, Director Royal Observatory, Munich 118 Sir David Gill, Astronomer Royal at the Cape of Good Hope 121 Dr. M. Nyrdn, Imperial Observatory, Pulkova 127 O. Backlund, Director Imperial Observatory, Pulkova 128 E. Becker, Director University Observatory, Strassburg 131 Dr. Ralph Copeland, Astronomer Royal for Scotland 132 Dr. W. H. M. Christie, Astronomer Royal, Greenwich 135 Prof. J. C. Kapteyn, Director Astronomical Laboratory, Groningen. 136 Dr. Arthur Auwers, Secretary Royal Prussian Academy, Berlin... 140 II. Correspondence relating to proposed Solar Observatory 143 Introduction 143 Letters from correspondents 143 Prof. C. A. Young, Director Observatory at Princeton, N. J 143 Prof. Henry Crew, Director of the Physical Laboratory of the Northwestern University, Evanston, 111 145 Prof. E. F. Nichols, Director of the Physical Laboratory, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H 146 Sir William Huggins, Tulse Hill Observatory, London, England.. 146 Prof. Arthur Schuster, Director of the Physical Laboratory, Owens College, Manchester, England 147 Prof. H. C. Vogel, Director Royal Astrophysical Observatory, Potsdam, Germany 149 Prof. H. Kayser, Director Physical Institute, University of Bonn, Germany 149 Dr. W. E. Wilson, Private Observatory, Daram...