OBITUARY.
• —« MR. H. ■A. LENEHAN, ASTRONOMER. TIT TELEGRAPH —rKESS ASSOCIATION" —COPXHIQHT ' , (Rec. May'. 3,, 4.10- Pj.m.) : ' ■ Sydney,, May, 3.4, The death is announced of" iK' %enry Alfred Lenehan, Government. Astronomer, aged. sixty-five years./' • J i'dh v 5, Henry Alfred 1 lenelian, F.R.A.S., was-last year appointed Government 1 Astronomer at the Sydney Observatory, New South-Wales. 'Ho was born in Sydney on- August '2D, r 'lSd3, 'aiid was educated, at- Lyndhurst ■ College,' Sydney'. Ho followed commercial and- banking. for -six years. For the last thirtyr'seveh.'yeari liji'has been in the Sydney . : Obserratorj-, • thirty-four years first assistant',' ■' : 'dhd>' three 1 'years 'as director. Ho was a member; of the Council'"of , the Royal Society of New 'South Wales, and Wis President of the Society in 1905-06.' He lias published departmental pamphlets.' ; :
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 188, 4 May 1908, Page 7
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