Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-06
WORLDS STAR GAZERS 7 D
GATHER ON MT. WILSON
International Meeting to Arrange
for Tracking of Comets
in Flight

PASADENA, May e.-Professor George FL
iery Hale of the Carnegie solar observatory on
Mount Wilson, who has been overseeing the
ARRANGEMENTS for the entertainment of over a
hundred scientists of Europe and America at
the local observatory from August % to Sep
tember G. reports that acceptances have been
received from nearly a hundred astronomers,
scientists and professors.
The meeting this fall will be the third con-
vention of the international Union for Co
operation in Solar Research, and arrangements
are being made by the staff of the Mount
Wilson observatory for the entertainment OF
the distinguished guests The new 150-foot
. tower will be completed by that time and the
museum, containing plates taken ny the "iu
of the fve-foot Hooker rejecting telescope
Will be STUDIED by the astronomers Plans Will
be perfected at this meeting for systematic
tracking of the various planets and stars IN
their flight, through the cooperation OF the
observatories of the world Among those from
whom acceptances have been received by the
local scientists are:
Charles c. Abbott, director Smithsonian
Astrophysica1 observatory, Washington D. G;
Prof ]. S. Ames, Johns Hopkins university
Baltimore Md; Prof. o. Bacl5lund, direeteur
Observatoire Central Nicolas, Poulkova, Rus
sla; Professor E. E. Barnard Yerkes obser-
vatory, Williams Bay, Wis; DR.. L. A. Bauer
Carnegie institution, Washington, D. G;
Prof. A. Bolopslzy, Observatoire de Poulkova.
Russia: Prof W. w. Campbell Lick observa-
tory, Mount Hamilton, Cal; PsOf. 7. c. Cham
berlain, University of Chicago; Prof. Giro
Chistoni, Universta di Napoli, Naples, Italy;
Prof c. A. Chant, University Of Toronto
Canada; M. Henri Chretien, Observatoire de
Nice, France; Rev. r. Cirera, Observatorio del
Ebro, Tortosa, Spain; DR.. D. w. Coblentz'
hureau Of standards Washington, p. c.; Prof.
G. C. Comstock, Washburn observatory, Madi-
son. wis: Rev A. L. Cortie, Stonyhurst col
lege observatory, Lancashire, England; Prof.
A. Cotton, PEcole Normale Superieure Paris;
Prof Henry Crew, Northwestern university,
Evanston, Ill NJ. II. Deslandres, Obseryatoire
de Meudon, Seine-et-O Disc, France; Prof. A. E.
Douglass, University of Arizona, Tucson;
Prof F. W. Dyson. astronomer royal of Scot
land Royal observatory, Edinburgh. Scotland;
DIR. Paul Eversheim University of Bonn, Ger
many; Prof Charles Fabry, Faeulte de Sci
ences. MarseiIles, France; Mrs H. Fleming
Harvard university observatory, Cambridge,
Mass; Prof A. Fowler, Imperial college of
Science and Technology, South Kensington,
London; Prof. Philip Fox, Dearborn observa-
tory Evanston, H.; Prof. E. B. Frost, Yerkes
observatory, Williams Bay, Wis; Prof H. G.
Gale, University of Chicago; Sir David GILL;
London, S. W; Prof. DR.. ]. Hartman, Stern
warte, Gottingen, Germany; M. Hamy, Ohser-
vatoire de Paris; Major E. H. Hills, London,
s. w; Prof. H. Kayser. Kgl Universitaet,
Bonn, Germany; Prof. J. C. Kapteyn, Astro-
nomical laboratory. Gronigen, Holland; Prof.
DR.. f. Kustner, Kgl Sternwarte. Bonn, Ger
many; Herr Prof. o. Knopf, Universitaets
Sternwarte, jena, Germany; Prof Dr. Fl.
Konen Physikalsches Institut Universatit,
Munster Germany: Prof. Horace Lamb, Uni
versity of Manchester, England Sir Joseph