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PROF. STROOBANT'S annual résumé of the advances made in astronomy during the previous year is becoming a work of increasing usefulness to the astronomical reader; a wide range of subjects is treated concisely and with a discerning appreciation of relative importance. As usual, the review of 1911 is not restricted to observations only, but includes the recent advances in theory, such, for example, as Miller's and Störmer's papers on the mechanics of the corona and Birkeland's suggestions as to the formation of sun-spots. Tables of new variable stars (148), minor planets (now totalling 732) and new spectroscopic binaries (94), and several fine plates, add considerably to the value of the work.
Les Progrès Récents de l'Astronomie.
Prof. Paul Stroobant. Pp. 173. (Brussels: Hayez, Rue de Louvain, 112, 1912.)
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R., W. Les Progrès Récents de l'Astronomie . Nature 90, 670 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/090670c0
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