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Washington: GPO, 1933. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 11pp extract, illustrated with charts, salvaged from a damaged copy of the Annual Report Of The Board Of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year Ending June 30, 1932. Author was Astronomer at the Harvard College Observatory. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve..

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Very Good. Soft cover. pp121-131. Removed from ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1932. In plastic report covers. VG. From the article: "The reason why the stars do not appear to move is that they are so exceedingly far away. Even the nearest is 275,000 times as far away as the sun is from us, (that is 275,000 x 92,900,000 miles), and light from this star does not reach us until it has been on its journey four and one-third years.".