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THE GUIDE TO NATURE-ADVERTISEMENTS 
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“Science” for April 22, 1921. has for 
its initial article a long account of Sher- 
burne Wesley Burnham, the astron- 
omer, who died last spring at the age 
of eighty-three. The interesting point 
in his career for readers of The Guide 
to Nature is that he was entirely self- 
taught, having hardly more than a dis- 
trict school education. He worked most 
of his life as a court stenographer and 
clerk. He became interested in astron- 
omy shortly after he was twenty and 
by the time he was thirty-two he had 
gone far enough with his chosen science 
to buy himself a six inch glass and be- 
fore he was thirty-six he was pub- 
lishing: through the Royal Astronomical 
Society and corresponding with pro- 
fessional astronomers all over Europe. 
Later he was on the staffs of both the 
Lick and the Yerkes Observatories, 
where he did much of his work with the 
two largest glasses in the world be- 
tween Saturday night and Monday 
morning and on his other holidays, do- 
ing a full week’s work between. His 
special field was double stars but he 
was the first to see Halley’s comet on 
its return in 1909. It all shows what a 
student of nature can do if only he uses 
his spare time. 
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