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Science of November 5 announces that PROF. ARTHUR SEARLE, Phillips professor emeritus of astronomy at Harvard University, died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 23. Prof. Searle, who was born in England in 1837, and graduated from Harvard in 1856, became assistant in the Harvard College Observatory in 1869. He was appointed assistant professor of astronomy in 1883, and full professor in 1887, retiring in 1912 with the rank of professor emeritus. He contributed largely to scientific magazines, and in 1874 published a text-book of astronomy.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 106, 446 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106446e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106446e0