Porter, Jermain G. (Jermain Gildersleeve), . 1852.
Jermain G. Porter papers, 1885-1888.
Correspondence (1887-1888) from Fauth and Company, Washington, D. C., pertaining to the meridian circle for the Cincinnati Observatory; introduction to H. B. Chamberlin, who later founded Chamberlin Observatory, Denver, Colo.; 67 observation cards with sightings of the comet (1885) as the object of study and with references to O. W. Struve (1819-1905), Russian astronomer.
American astronomer (Proper motion of stars; motion of solar system in space; variation of latitude; comet orbits). Director, Cincinnati Observatory and Professor of Astronomy, University of Cincinnati, 1884-1931. Porter died in 1933.
Cincinnati Observatory (Ohio) -- Administration.
Cincinnati Observatory (Ohio) -- Instruments.
Astronomical instruments
Astronomical observatories -- Instruments.
Comets -- Observations.
Transit-circle.
Astronomers.
Chamberlin, H. B. founder, Chamberlin Observatory (Denver, Colo.).
Fauth and Company.
Struve, Otto, 1819-1905
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