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Henry Martyn Paul

PAUL, Henry Martyn, astronomer, born in Dorchester (now Hyde Park), Massachusetts, 25 June, 1851. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1873, and as a civil engineer at the Thayer school in 1875. In the latter year he was appointed assistant astronomer in the United States naval observatory, Washington, D. C., where he remained until 1880, meanwhile serving with the expeditions that were sent to observe the transit of Mercury in May, 1878, and the solar eclipse of July, 1878. During 1880-'3 he was professor of astronomy in the University of Tokio, Japan, after which he returned to his post in Washington. Professor Paul is a member of various scientific societies, and is the author of astronomical monographs that have been published as appendices to the annual volumes of the "Observations" of the United States naval observatory.

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