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I LEARN—although I have not myself yet seen the note—that NATURE has been unwittingly led into the error of stating that Lowell Observatory, at Flagstaff, Arizona, is a branch of Harvard College Observatory. This impression had its origin in a press dispatch, and I am, with the approval of Mr. Lowell, correcting these wrong impressions when possible.

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RITCHIE, J. The Lowell Observatory, Arizona. Nature 50, 149 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050149a0

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