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WE greatly regret to record the death of Frank E. Baxandall, which took place on Oct. 30 at Cambridge, in his sixty-first year. He was a native of Keighley, and after obtaining his degree of A.R.C.Sc. at the Royal College of Science, London, entered the service of the Solar Physics Committee under Sir Norman Lockyer. The chief part of the work at that time (1888) consisted of the observation of sunspot spectra and their reduction with respect to chemical origin and variation during the sunspot cycle. The great impetus to astrophysical research instituted by Prof. E. C. Pickering at Harvard College Observatory, Mass., resulted in similar instruments being installed at the Solar Physics Observatory, and Baxandall's duties were then extended to take part in subsequent night observations, taking photographs of stellar spectra with the new 6-inch Henry prismatic camera, and also the work of reducing the spectra for inclusion in a comprehensive analysis of the brighter stars which was published in 1892.
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B., C. Mr. Frank E. Baxandall. Nature 124, 732 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124732a0
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