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WE regret to announce the death last September, after a long illness, at the age of fifty-seven years, of M. Henry Bourget, director of the Marseilles Observatory. After taking his degree, in which he gained distinction both for literary and mathematical studies, M. Bourget was at Toulouse Observatory for twelve years under M. Baillaud, and carried out a successful programme of stellar photography with the large reflector. He also continued his mathematical researches, obtaining the doctor's degree for a thesis on hyperabelian groups, and helping in the editing of the works of Hermite. He took a large share in the photography of the Toulouse zone of the astrographic catalogue, in the Eros programme of 1900, and observed the total solar eclipses of 1900 and 1905 from Elche and Guelma.
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C., A. M. Henry Bourget. Nature 108, 412–413 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108412c0
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