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THE death of MR. C. GROVER, of Rousdon, Devonshire, on February 16, removes from the list of variable star observers a notable figure. There are now thirty-five years' observations made with the same instrument (a 6.4-in. refractor by Merz and Cooke, with low-power eye-piece of 25 by Steinheil) by the same observer on the same plan, and with remarkable regularity and continuity. The first half of these observations were collected and discussed in vol. lv. of the R.A.S. Memoirs, but an equal contribution can now be added with a natural termination. This work was planned by the late Sir Cuthbert Peek, who took a personal share in its inception. Since Sir Cuthbert's death in 1900 it has been continued by his son, Sir Wilfred Peek. Mr. Grover would have been seventy-nine on March 7, and continued at his regular work until the very day preceding his death. There can seldom have been a more single-minded piece of astronomical work.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 107, 20 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107020a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107020a0