Appendix B to Report of Committee on 



Observatories 



letters relating to southern and soear 



OBSERVATORIES. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



I. Correspondence relating to proposed Southern Observatory 106 



Extracts from Confidential Statement 106 



Letters from correspondents 108 



H. H. Turner, Director University Observatory, Oxford 108 



M. Loewy, Director Paris Observatory 112 



H. Bruns, Director Royal Observatory, Leipsic 116 



F. Kiistner, Director Royal Observatory, Bonn 117 



H. Seeliger, Director Royal Observatory, Munich 118 



Sir David Gill, Astronomer Royal at the Cape of Good Hope 121 



Dr. M. Nyren, Imperial Observatory, Pulkova 127 



O. Backlund, Director Imperial Observatory, Pulkova 128 



E. Becker, Director University Observatory, Strassburg 131 



Dr. Ralph Copeland, Astronomer Royal for Scotland 132 



Dr. W. H. M. Christie, Astronomer Royal, Greenwich 135 



Prof. J. C. Kapteyn, Director Astronomical Laboratory, Groningen. 136 

 Dr. Arthur Auwers, Secretary Royal Prussian Academy, Berlin. . . 140 



II. Correspondence relating to proposed Solar Observatory 143 



Introduction 143 



Letters from correspondents 143 



Prof. C. A. Young, Director Observatory at Princeton, N. J 143 



Prof. Henry Crew, Director of the Physical Laboratory of the 



Northwestern University, Evanston, 111 .... 145 



Prof. E. F. Nichols, Director of the Physical Laboratory, Dart- 

 mouth College, Hanover, N. H 146 



Sir William Huggins, Tulse Hill Observatory, London, England. . 146 

 Prof. Arthur Schuster, Director of the Physical Laboratory, Owens 



College, Manchester, England 147 



Prof. H. C. Vogel, Director Royal Astrophysical Observatory, 



Potsdam, Germany 149 



Prof. H. Kayser, Director Physical Institute, University of Bonn, 



Germany 149 



Dr. W. E. Wilson, Private Observatory, Daramona, Ireland 151 



Sir Norman Lockyer, Solar Physics Observatory, South Kensing- 

 ton, London 152 



Prof. C. E. Mendenhall, Physical Laboratory, University of Wis- 

 consin 153 



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