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THE sixth biennial meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, founded in the year 1863, at Heidelberg took place this year at Leyden, according to the international character of the Society, and in conformity with the resolution of the last meeting at Hamburg. The first session was opened by the President, O. Struve, in the rooms of the magnificent Observatory at Leyden. Besides him were present the following members: Auerbach, Bruhns, Engelmann, Scheibner, and Zöllner from Leipzig; Winnecke, and Hartwig from Strassburg; H. G. Bakhuyzen, E.F. Bakhuyzen, Kaiser, Schlegel and Valentiner, from Leyden; Gyldèn from Stockholm, Repsold from Hamburg, v. d. Willigen from Harlem, Förster and Tietjen from Berlin, Seeliger from Bonn, Bruns from Dorpat, Kortazzi from Nikolajew, Palisa from Pola, Bosscha from the Hague, Block from Odesa.
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Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft at Leyden, August 13–16. Nature 12, 386–387 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012386a0
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