. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history -- California. The Astronomical Observatory at Vienna, Austria By Holdridge Ozro Collins. LL. 1).. The largest Building of the Vienna University, containing the Library, Lecture-rooms, Exhibition-halls, ion-offices and Promenade-Colonnades at tli>- junction of University street, Franzensring and Schottenring. Ii has been my happy fortune to pass the winter of 1907- 1908 in Vienna, and the mosl pleasanl of the many agreeable events of my experience in thai lively city were my rec
. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history -- California. The Astronomical Observatory at Vienna, Austria By Holdridge Ozro Collins. LL. 1).. The largest Building of the Vienna University, containing the Library, Lecture-rooms, Exhibition-halls, ion-offices and Promenade-Colonnades at tli>- junction of University street, Franzensring and Schottenring. Ii has been my happy fortune to pass the winter of 1907- 1908 in Vienna, and the mosl pleasanl of the many agreeable events of my experience in thai lively city were my reception by Professor Weiss and the facilities afforded by him for in- specting the greal Observatory, of which he is Director, and an examination of the work carried on under his control. My only credentia] was my Certificate of Fellowship in The Southern California Academy !' Sciences, but it proved an open sesame to ;i most cordial and more than friendly re- cepl ion. Edmund Weiss is a Doctor and Professor of the Vienna University, and he has also the higb dignity of Hofrat, or Im- perial Counsellor, an honor conferred only by the Emperor, who has for him the greatesl esteem, and he had the mosl friendly relations with the late Empress Elizabeth. lie is a gentleman of medium stature, with brillianl black eyes and ;i snowy mane and beard of -I ivian proportions; and although seventy years old, he has the vigor and vivacity of a man of fifty. In the several interviews I have had with him. 1 have appreciated his cordiality and his evident desire that I should 29. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Southern California Academy of Sciences. Los Angeles, Calif. : The Academy
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