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A SOLAR OBSERVATORY FOR NEW ZEALAND.—For many years it has been felt that the European and American Solar Physics Observatories should be supplemented by similar observatories in that great stretch of longitude which at present is not represented. The establishment of Kodaikanal was a tremendous advance in the right direction, and a further successful step was taken by the founding of the new observatory in Australia; the latter, we hope, will soon be in active operation. By the generosity of Mr. Thomas Cawthron, of Nelson, New Zealand, this chain of stations will be carried still further east by about 25° of longitude, for he has offered to build, equip, and endow a solar observatory in the vicinity of Nelson. The climate of Nelson seems admirably suited for such a station. The choice of the actual site is, according to a communication from Miss Proctor, in the hands of Sir Robert Ball, who has been requested to send a representative to select that which is most advantageous, and also to give estimates regarding the equipment. Let us hope that this, the "Cawthron Solar Observatory,“will soon be in active operation also, thus completing the girdling of the earth from the solar physics point of view.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 91, 460–461 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091460a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/091460a0