New-York tribune., 1908-01-05

Dartmouth in 1856 as professor of natural phiioso
ply and astronomy remaining here until 1877, when
lie became professor of astronomy at Princeton
Professor c. A. Young was descended from as
tr.no rnica professors his father being Professor
Ira Young. of the faculty of Dartmouth Cohege,
where he filed the. chair of natural philosophy and
astronomy. and his maternal grandfather. Professor
Ebenezer Adams having held the-sa post His
father prepared him for college and he was grad
uaed at the head of his class His first experience
as a teacher was at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Mass While at Western Reserve he offered his
services to the government to defend the Union
and was captain a company of 1Oo-day men
who volunteered from the college at the call OF
the Governor of Ohio lin 1862 The company went
to Vicksburg to guard prisoners. and professor
Young's health was impaired and he never fully
recovered While professor at Dartmouth ne was
with the scientists who observed the solar eclipse
of August = 1859. at Burlington Iowa, and MADE
some important spectroscopic observations In
December 1870 he was with the party which OBJ
served the eclipse Jere-, Span and there he OBJ
served for the first time the reversal OF the hnes
of the solar spectrum for which he received the
Jansen medal from the French Academy OF Sci
| ences in 1891 In 1874 he was connected Win the
party which observed the transit OF venus at
Peking, China, and he made extensive opserVdtiohs
of the transit of Venus in 1882 at Princeton he
took charge of number parties to observe solar
ecIipses among others that from princeton TO
Wadesboro N c., in May, 1900
DIR Young devised the form of automatic spec
troscone which is in general use and made many
important observations Of the solar spectrum ana
solar promnences, verifying the principle of Dopp-
Ter in regard THE slight shifting OF the lines Oh
the spectrum the source of light moves toward
the earth away from il, thus being aole 10
calculate the velocity of the suns rotation 7esdes
the instruction he gave his college classes Dr.
Young gave many popular lectures at other fnsttu-
tions and in Boston. Baltimore and elsewhere
He was honoreG by many recOgniuons or emil
nence in his department He was member OF the
National Academy OF Sciences, a fellow and e&-
vice-president of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, associate fellow OF
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in
Boston an honorary member of the New YORK
Academy of Sciences and of the Philosophical So
ciety in Philadelphia, and a foreign associate Oh
the RoIaI Astronomical Society of Great Britain
The degree OF Doctor of Philosophy was bestowed
on Dr. Young by the University of Pennsylvania
and Hamilton College, and that of Doctor OF Laws
bv Wesleyan, Columbia, Western Reserve and
Dartmouth He found time in addition to his pro-
fessionaI duties TO write much for scientific pup
ucations and several popular boo--s which have
had w;de circulation, among which are The sun
lin rbe International Scientific Series, "A General
Astronomy Elements of Astronomy, Lessons
in Astronomy." Manual of Astronomy" and
..T-ranography.' AS a specialist in solar physics
he was the disc6vereT of the solar reversing
laver." which produces a bright line spectrum in
the chromosphere. corresponding to the dark lines
in the ordinary solar spectrum In lsoS professor
Young was married to Miss Augusta s. Mixer OF
Concord \ H He of the first professors
to receive a retirement pension from the carnegie
Foundation established in 1904, for which Andre"
Carnegie gave s10.0O0,000 He had been in active
service AT Princeton twentyeight years. and on
his retirement in 1908 loving cup was presented 10
him on which was inscribed this sentiment IN
Greek: i know l mortal and the creature
| of day Yet when 1 search the close set whirlng
no / Ieel
unon rhe earth. but, seated with owe himself, l
| take nv fill of the breath of heaven