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ELKIN, William Lewis, astronomer, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, 29 April, 1855. He was educated at the Royal polytechnic school in Stuttgart, Germany, and was graduated at the University of Strasburg in 1880. Subsequently he was associated with Dr. David Gill, of the Royal observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, in investigating the parallaxes of southern stars. In 1884 he became an astronomer at the observatory of Yale university, which post he still holds. His investigations at this place have included a triangulation of the Pleiades with the heliometer, and other researches with that instrument, the only one of its kind in America; also researches on the parallaxes of northern stars. These results have been published in current astronomical journals, and have given Dr. Elkin wide reputation among astronomers.
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