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LEWIS, an American astronomer, born in Providence, R. I., Oct. 26, 1846; was graduated at Dartmouth College, in 1870; astronomer of the Northern Boundary Survey for the determination of the line between the W. part of the United States and British America: and, since the completion of that work, Director of the Dudley Observatory, Albany, N. Y. He was chief of the United States party sent to Chile in 1882 to observe the transit of Venus; was elected a member of the National Academy of Science, in 1889, and an honorary foreign associate of the Royal Astronomical Society, in 1890. He is best known for his work upon star declinations. After 1909 he edited the "Astronomical Journal." In 1911 he received the Lalandi prize from the French Academy of Science. Among his important works are: "Catalogue of 8,241 Stars"; "Positions and Motions of 627 Standard Stars" (1910); "Catalogue of 1,059 Standard Stars" (1911).
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