HARVARD OBSERVATORY MOVES TO SOUTH AFRICA

On March twenty-fourth over 70 cases of telescopes and accessories were shipped on the steamship "City of Athens" to East London, South Africa, from which port they will be transferred to the new branch of the Harvard College Observatory at Bloemfontein.

Peru Skies Cloudy

Since 1890 a branch station has been operated at Arequipa, Peru, but as cloudy weather handicaps the observation in that spot, it has been decided to move to the high platforms of South Africa where better conditions prevail throughout the year.

For the past four years the Peruvian station has been under the direction of Dr. John Paraskevopoulos, and he has superintended the transferring of the equipment from Arequipa to Bloemfontein. This includes a photographic telescope with a double lens 24 inches in diameter, one with a triple lens ten inches in diameter and three other photographic telescopes. The first two instruments are being provided with new mountings.

The contract for the new 60 inch reflecting telescope which is to be installed at Bloemfontein and which, as previously announced, will be the largest one in the Southern Hemisphere, has been awarded to a firm in Pittsburgh.