SOLAR OBSERVATION.
A GENEROUS OFFER. Per Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. 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 and endow a solar physic observatory in the vicinity of Nelson, at a cost of from £IO,OOO to £12.000. At pres9.lt there is no such observatory between India and America. Astronomers have long desired to have such an observatory in Miis part of the. world, in order to complete the chain of solar observxtories.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 292, 2 May 1913, Page 5
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105SOLAR OBSERVATION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 292, 2 May 1913, Page 5
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