Professor Pickering's Funeral Today

The funeral services for Professor Edward Charles Pickering, director of the University Observatory and renowned astronomer, who died at his home Monday evening after a brief illness, will be held at Appleton Chapel this afternoon at 1 o'clock. The service will be conducted by the Rev. Joel Hastings Metcalf of Winchester, an astronomer and life-long friend of Professor Pickering. Among the honorary pall bearers will be President Charles W. Eliot, and Professors C. R. Cross, G. P. Bowditch '63, and Elihu Thomson.