BOY DISCOVERS NEW COMET.
ELECTED FELLOW OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY.
Au interesting announcement was made at Cheltenham College last month by the principal, the occasion being Speech Day. The Rev R. Waterford said that on September 24th last there was observed in the heavens a new comet by a member of their classical sixth, a boy of seventeen, W. H. Sleaveusou. Except for a French astronomer, Stevenson was the first person in all the world who observed the comet.
The Astronomer-Royal sent for Steaveuson to congratulate him, and he had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. The principal believed that no other school had bad among its pupils a member of the Society.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1085, 20 August 1912, Page 4
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117BOY DISCOVERS NEW COMET. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1085, 20 August 1912, Page 4
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