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The Appendices contain, along with other useful material, questions for examination, topics for essays, and short reviews of a number of valuable works on Astronomy suitable for reference and general reading. A large number of the illustrations have never before appeared in any text-book. For many of the finer ones the author is indebted toP rof. E. S. Holden, Prof. Wm. W. Payne, Mr. A. Cowper Ranyard, and Dr. E. E. Barnard. Prof. E. C. Pickering kindly furnished a fine set of lithographs, made from observations at Harvard College Observatory, many of which have been reproduced. Prof. G. E. Hale has contributed photographs of the solar disturbance of July 15, 1892. Messrs. G. W. Saegmuller, of Washington, D. C., and J. A. Brashear, of A llegheny, Pa., supplied the pictures of some of the instruments. The author desires to state that he is specially indebted to his wife, Fannie Shattuck Howe, for her assistance in the preparation of the manuscript. UNIVERSITY PARK, COLORADO, 1896.
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