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PROF. W. H. PICKERING died on January 21 at his home at Mandeville, Jamaica, at the age of seventy-nine years, after several months of failing health. He was a younger brother of E. C. Pickering, the director of the Harvard College Observatory from 1876 until 1920.
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D., F. Prof. W. H. Pickering. Nature 141, 235–236 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141235a0
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