ASTRONOMICAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATED WITH HARVARD

Astronomy is particularly related to Harvard. President Lowell's brother, Percival, who died in 1916, did a great deal of research work in Arigona in 1912 which led to the discovery of the ninth planet beyond Neptune several years ago. The Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff is named in hs memory.

Edward Chales Pickering '65, who devised a photometer for measuring star distances, has given Harvard the largest collection of stellar photographs in the world. There were over 250,000 plates of both southern and northern stars in his laboratories. William Henry Pickering, who was also a professor of Astronomy here, discovered Phoebe, the ninth satellite of Saturn and proved that it moved in a direction opposite to the others. He travelled widely, made intensive studies of the moon, and established an observatory in Jamaica, British West Indies.