NEW ZEALAND OBSERVATORY.
AUCKLAND. August 17. |
An appeal for the establishment of an , observatory in New Zealand was made last ! night by Professor Segar in the course of . a lecture on astronomy. He reminded his ' hearers of the" 300 th'" anniversary" of the finding of the telescope by Galileo, and urged that an effort should be made to put the Dominion on a level with other countries. The time had arrived when New Zealand should have a national observatory. We had had a good deal of knowledge handed down to us by our ancestors, and ought to make it our duty as well as consider it our privilege to extend the boundaries of science in all its branches.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 25 August 1909, Page 12
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118NEW ZEALAND OBSERVATORY. Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 25 August 1909, Page 12
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