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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



THE PKOGEESS OF SCIENCE. 



WILLIAM BARENESS. 



In the death of Professor William 



Harkness, U. S. N., America loses one 



of the grouj) of scientific men who have 



given this country high rank in its con- 



of the U. S. Naval Observatory and in 

 arranging its equipment. He was born 

 in Scotland in 1838, his father being a 

 clergyman. He was educated at La- 

 fayette College and Rochester Univer- 



WiLLiAM Harkness. 



tributions to astronomy. While Hark- 

 ness may not have made brilliant 

 discoveries, he accomplished a large 

 amount of painstaking work, and had 

 an important share in the expeditions 



sity and studied medicine in New York 

 City, being for a time surgeon during 

 the civil war. He was appointed aid 

 in the U. S. Naval Observatory in 1 802, 

 and his connection with tliis institution 



