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PROF. GEORGE CARY COMSTOCK, emeritus director of the Washburn Observatory and professor of astronomy in the University of Wisconsin, formerly dean of the Graduate School, died on May 11, aged seventy-nine years. He was known for his determination of the constant of aberration, for studies of atmospheric refraction, for long-continued work on double stars, and especially for one of the first determinations of the proper motions of faint stars.
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[Obituary]. Nature 134, 171 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134171b0
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