ASTRONOMICAL LECTURE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1713, 2 April 1913, Page 7

ASTRONOMICAL LECTURE.

0 SOLAR PHYSICS' OBSERVATORIES. , j'Solar .Vhysids .QWrvatories" was tho 'a • ■ w tt o4 ' R Jcctuio delivered by Dr. • C Hector ;Ut a. .meeting- of -the astron-- •, ornical section of the .Philosophical .So* ' ?n° thn |- !k lfv JJ le meeting was hela 'j? -Mftuwio Observatory, and there • • " .capital attendance to listen to I *.s®'- Proved a very interesting lecture. .• ..i. hid'/opening. •'•remarks,' ~.Po.ntedo u t that, the subject ;of which ' !n>»cf Sto s P c ®k «'as one of general in- - . ,Wrest, • ..antf, • , of; 'special . .interest r x v ■ *"»?>? - of .tho visit' of > an!"i .Proctor.._ After .touching upon' •fi' '• -.«»?•• eveub in ; connection • with the • J .omparatiyely recent stiidy of Solar' PhvJISA- eome |to the .'establish •'• South ICen- ' ' •?« ffef. i n and. to the establishment -21' • t Af«»w? el: S?^f >^es . : India, .and •Sjiiy . mi '■^■?' son ''••Cal'fornia,.'nt later "• - lhe ,'Pioneer/work done at South . had bden of immense valuo , to the later establishments, and'if We ' : tKii o^,r O p a i! ytlliilg , , in isolar physics in this Pfljt of the'.world, it>:would bo well 'ItiJ'V 'u wh ." t: l,n(1: been dono" ; in' ' ': • er ., ? olni ' -Ph/sn's , observatories. , BearI n s l', '?• 111 .. |nl nd,'.the lecturer, read exi ! from a. report.'.by. the Solar l'hv- : ? ' ilkfitiS'"^! 0 ' 1 th . e So I . uth 'Kensington ..... •. ln&fitiihoii. - . rius .• rlport ..coveredthe , , J.penod. between : 1889, and 11)09, and gave ... .Particulars- ;;of work .done in ° IOiJI O iJ. llg ' so ' ar .,n u d. terrestrial changes, and the;connecti6n,,of suuspots with at- . ......-moftphem changes "arid tho/surge ofbaro- . m |,rici ; pvessUro., - .The report also ex- ,. ' plained the present equipment of .the "ob- - iond gavo, it list of, officers; with . 4j ltles ;'A, ieport.;by, the tf ire'e-: r* "• .tor of / tho Mount Wilson Observatory' was also referred to, and • Dr:.'Hector.'. then ■ ■ i - i om6 "J ''J lO • instruments 'in lisS ,L,n PfePi'vatorics by which tho results of .the work are placed on re-' cord:, , .... Throughout tho lecture, Dr'.'Hector was .. .. .R»ven ,niv. excellent -hearing, and at the ; cciiiclusion he was warmly applauded.