Father P. Lejay, who has been appointed "General "Director of Siccawei Observatory in succession fo Father Froe, has arrived Shanghai and is taking up. his duties. "Father Lejay was a passen-Ting. ro to Shanghai via ger in the Emprest of Japan, travel. ing from Paris to Shanghai
His appointment has resulted in certain alterations, the staff being reorganized as follow:
Pather Lejay will act as General Director, "Father Gherzi, who 38 being assisted when necessity by Father Burgaud, who isi charge of the time department and magnetical work. Father dela Villemarque, who was recently chief of the astronomical section of Zot vice Father de Moidrey, who will remain at Loh-kia-pang to continue {the magnetical observations.
Father P. Lejay, is a Doctor of Science, and a graduate in mathe~ maties and physics of the Sorbonne, Paris, and the Ecole Supérieure aElectricité. During the Gros War, he served as an soldier in artillery and in the wireless section, but he resumed his important work after the Armistice, Father Lejay. first arrived in China in 1926 when he stayed until the end of 1927 in order to organise the Longitude determinations when Siccawei was chosen by the International Astro nomical Union to be a fundamental point in the international measure ments.
After the organisation was completed he returned to Europe to discuss the results and during the past four years, Father Lejay has been making researches in the Paris Observatory on a new method for the measuring gravity and the automatic record of the brightness of stars.
'His special knowledge.has led to him being appointed as French delegate in the astronomical, geophysical and radiotelegraphic' interna tional union Father Lejay has brought With him new apparatus to measure amount of ozone in the very high atmosphere, recorders to study the connection of statics and wireless propagation with the meteorological Situations, researches, it is hoped, which will throw new light on the origin of typhoons and improve the methods of weather forecasting,
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