DISTIGUISHED VISITORS

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 154, 30 June 1914, Page 7

DISTIGUISHED VISITORS

ENGLISH ASTBONOMEB ROTAI. LiaXVICE FOR OKSERVATOKY. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) WTEJLIjINGTOX, itiie day. Though it i? a -time since lue aniiounee.nietit w;ik made t4tut Mr. <'asv-thron.of-Wlson. wotiJd liniid a New Zeateird solar observatory, no practical etpp si-cms to have ii<H.|i tak-en with tiie sehemp. 'Professor Bvprchpil. iii>.-;vn'cr in ctairge raf Ui<- Solar Oltßt-natory at X.>. dflihimil, So-ulherii Jmlia. rc|>i>rtc<l 'lavourably iipoii <ik v t-iic. i»ml .Mr. tiiwthjou has 'been fully udrhntd ;is to

tiie eoet oT c-«irrydm: out his jrcne.nms offrr. 'Hioro ]iu.s bepii .sonic conftiot of advice, hmwwr, :ind tl>o i-pcc-uR. lias -been tt> l>rinjt Oie matter to a tcnqmitiry tolt.

Aflvaittajre lias been taken of the l>refietue .a the si-iooc-o congiTws iii ..Melbourne of (iL~tiiijy<iifelio<l afiU-ouomer-i whn liave beeti invited Txi visit ,New Zejilan.l Olid pive their ut.ln.iWe aA-tif-1 iince in forming nil arceptuble sCltnup. The vit-i----fcnrs are the Astronomei- [loyal of England (Dr. Dyson-). Dr. iVbbott. of the Kiiiith-sonian .Vstrmpliysicw Oli«ervatory, ami Dr. DutUeld. lYo'feswor of Physic? at Ro.'irfin? I iiivcrsilv. who w«is formerly in South .Australia, ami initiated a- profTovi,] for tin , oisUiblisliment "f weaHli.