Astronomical
An American astronomer departs for Europe ahead of international preparations to observe the coming transit of Venus.
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The Cairo Bulletin · July 18, 1873 · Page 1
1 min readNEW YORK, July 17.
Dr. C. H. F. Peirce, director of the Litchfield observatory, sailed to-day in the Silesia for Hamburg. He will visit his friends in Germany, and will attend the convention of astronomers to arrange for observing the transit of Venus next year.
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