Records of the Harvard College Observatory : the Boyden Station, Arequipa, Peru, 1888-1927.

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Records of the Harvard College Observatory : the Boyden Station, Arequipa, Peru, 1888-1927.

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These records document the establishment and administration of the Boyden Station observatory in Arequipa, Peru, and the astronomical and meteorological research undertaken at the Station, as well as life and travel in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Peru. The records are organized in two series: correspondence, and journals and notebooks.

4.2 cubic feet (12 document boxes, 1 portfolio box)

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Harvard University Archives.

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