Identifier: smithsonianmisce941936smit (find matches)
Title: Smithsonian miscellaneous collections
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 94, NO. 12, PL. 2
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View Showing the West and North Sides of the ObservatoryAND the Dwelling, Mount St. Katherine NO. 12 MOUNT ST. KATHERINE STATION ABBOT 3 struments, almost, indeed, adequate to observe the solar constant ofradiation, and they spent weeks and even months in observing atsome of the more promising stations. In this way they visited theCape Verde Islands, many peaks in South-West Africa, and finallyMount St. Katherine, about lo miles from Mount Sinai in Egypt,having an altitude of about 8,500 feet. No station visited proved aspromising as the last mentioned. Mr. and Mrs. Moore observed thereon about 100 days during the months of March, April, May, June,and July, 1932. As a result I was convinced that Mount St. Katherinehad a fair chance of proving to be nearly as satisfactory as Montezumain Chile for solar-constant observations. With further support from Mr. Roebling, and with the generousgift from the National Geographic Society of the apparatus whichhad formerly been installed at Mount B

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