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IT is with deep regret that we learn of the sudden death of Prof. Alexis Hansky, whose work in solar physics at the Pulkowa Observatory has attracted so much attention. According to a letter from M. Tikhoff, which appears in the September number of the Bulletin de la Société astronomique de France, M. Hansky was drowned whilst bathing in the Black Sea at Simeise, in the Crimea, on August n (July 29, O.S.). The deceased astronomer commenced his practical work in solar physics by observing the total eclipse of 1896 at Novaya Zemlya, and at the time of his tragic death was engaged in the installation of a new observatory in the Crimea which had been given to him, and which he had handed over to the Pulkowa Observatory. By his death at the early age of thirty-six years, the study of solar physics has suffered a loss which it will be exceedingly difficult to repair.
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Notes . Nature 78, 466–470 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/078466a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/078466a0
