by several distinguished authorities, versity of Berlin, where, in 1836, he received the degree including Simon Newcomb and Asaph Hall, of the U of doctor of philosophy, and then spent some time in S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. The case study at Copenhagen. In 1838 he accompanied Baron… … that institution until his death. In 1867 Edwin C. death had come to him, and when daylight broke CHRISTIAN HENRY FREDERICK PETERS. Litchfield, of Brooklyn, N. Y., presented the col- his soul was far away in the heavens among lege with the sum of $30,000 to endow a chair of those starry bodies…
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