Academy of Sciences Confers Award on Father Burgaud The Academy of Sciences in Paris has decided to award the Benjamin Valz prize to Father Burgaud, direc-for of the Time and Magnetism Departments of the Siccawei Observatory.
After organizing these two depart ments, one at Zose Observatory, and the other at Zikawei, Father Bur= gued has been in charge of them for the past five years, and has been exceedingly successful in his work, The magnetism observatory at Zose has become the base of all similar observatories in China, where those engaged in this work, both foreign and Chinese, come to gauge their instrument The regularity and precision of this time service, already greatly appreciated by sailors, determined the choice of the " International Astronomical Union of Siccawei as '4 fundamental longitudinal base. For several years, Father Burgaud completed a magnetic chart of China, and several times previous to the resent hostilities he had surveyed the whole of South China, from Shanghai to Yunnanfu, nothing new tions to the south of the Yangtze, oF checking over the ones which had formerly been established.
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