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BY the will of the late Mr. Percival Lowell, a fund amounting to 10 per cent, of the income of his total estate of a million dollars is set apart for the maintenance of the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona, to be used especially for βthe study of our solar system and its evolutions.β It is specified that the observatory is never to be merged or joined with any other institution. The fund devoted to this purpose is to be held in trust by the late astronomer's brother-in-law, Mr. W. Lowell Putnam.β
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Notes . Nature 98, 313β316 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098313a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/098313a0
