SOLAR OBSERVATORY
PROPOSED FOR AFRICA. TO BE ERECTED BY SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 12.34 p.m. to-day. CAPETOWN, March 26. Dr. Abbott, of the United States Smithsonian Institute, after a long investigation including Algeria and Baluchistan, has definitely decided upon Beersheba, in South-West Africa, as the site of the new solar observatory from which the American scientists will study the variation in. the sun’s heat, with a. view to improving weather forecasts. The African observatory will co-operate with others in Chili and California. —Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 March 1926, Page 9
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