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SHAPLEY SPEAKS IN LONDON AT AWARD OF MEDAL TODAY

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This afternoon Harlow Shapley, Paine professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Harvard Observatory, will speak in London on "Some Structural Features of the Metagalaxy."

The lecture, which is part of the Darwin Lectureship, will be delivered in Burlington House at the time when Dr. Shapley is awarded the gold medal of the London Royal Astronomical Society for his studies of the galaxy. Previous recipients of the medal were Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and Dr. Albert Einstein.

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