SOLAR OBSERVATORY.
A GENEROUS OFFER. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May i. At the conclusion of a lecture by Miss Mary Proctor (daughter of the eminent astronomer) this evening, -.the Hon. R. H. Rhodes announced that Miss Proctor had received a communication from Mr. Thomas Cawthron, of Nelson, offering to build, equip, aind endow an observatory for solar physics in the vicinity of Nelson, at a cost-of from £IO,OOO to £12,000. At present there is no such observatory between India and America. Astronomers Rave long desired to have snob an observatory in this part of the world, in order to complete the chain of solar observatories.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144085, 2 May 1913, Page 2
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105SOLAR OBSERVATORY. Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144085, 2 May 1913, Page 2
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