NEW OBSERVATORY
LEIPZIG UNIVERSITY LEIPZIG, Sept. 10. The coming year will see tho completion of a large observatory now being built for the geophysical institute of the University of Leipzig. Tho building, which wi.l be surmounted by an 80-foot tower, is being erected on solid rock in a forest on the Colm at Oschatz, a suburb of Leipzig. Near by, in a small quarry, an “earthquake cellar” will be excavated for the observatory’s seismograph, and two further buildings will bo erected for the study of terrestrial niaguetism. The main building will be chiefly devoted to the study of atmospheric electricity. All investigations will be carried out along the lines of international geophysical research.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 243, 14 October 1931, Page 11
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