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DR. FROST'S autobiography was written for his children and grandchildren and is now published at the request of his many friends in the United States. An interesting picture is given of life in New England from the time of his ancestors, who took 53 days to reach Boston in 1635, down to his own early years. After leaving college he spent several years in Germany, and found an astronomical interest in translating Schemer's “Spectroscopy”. He returned as assistant professor to Dartmouth, until in 1898 he was appointed by Dr. Hale to be assistant at the Yerkes Observatory. Here he stayed, becoming director when Hale went to Mount Wilson, until he retired in 1932, when he was succeeded by Struve.
An Astronomer’ s Life.
By Edwin Brant Frost. Pp. xi + 300 + 8 plates. (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1933.) 3.50 dollars.
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An Astronomer’ s Life. Nature 132, 950 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132950a0
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