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THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF FRANCE.—The science of astronomy has become so increasingly popular in France within the last few years, and Frenchmen have done so much to aid its progress that there is ground for wonder that hitherto there has been no Society in France explicitly devoted to its interests. Such a Society, on lines very similar to those of our own Royal Astronomical Society, has at length been founded, and its first meeting was held on October 12, M. Camille Flammarion, the President, being in the chair. MM. Paul and Prosper Henry, General Parmentier, and M. E. L. Trouvelot are the Vice-Presidents; and MM. Gérigny and Gunziger the Secretaries; whilst Dr. Lescarbault, M. G. Secretan, and M. Ch. Trepied are a nongst the members of Council. At the first meeting, M. Trouvelot read a paper on a remarkable double shadow of the first satellite of Jupiter, observed by him in 1877 when at Cambridge, U.S.; and M. Ch. Mousette exhibited a fine photograph of a sunspot, and some large-scale photographs of portions of the solar spectrum.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 37, 66 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037066a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/037066a0