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Fig. 12.9 Pieter Johannes van Rhijn. Reproduction of a crayon drawing donated by
his relatives to the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute. This drawing hangs in the Kapteyn
Room
great friendships lay behind them, but a new and promising life lay ahead of this
couple, that still had strength and zest to create new values in the final parts of
their lives.
After the end of the First World War, Kapteyn had made plans to visit Mount
Wilson again. He was still a Research Associate of the Carnegie Institution and
still felt he had to deliver something of value to justify the money he received for
it. In August 1919 he wrote George Hale. He asked Hale to excuse him for the
year 1920, because of the much work he wanted to finish in Groningen before
his retirement, but suggested that he would visit Pasadena and Mount Wilson
again in 1921. The final catalog of the Selected Areas, based on the photographic
work done with the 60 in. telescope, had not yet been completed. He wrote
George Hale again in April 1921 with the proposition to arrive in California
around December 1. He had a lot of work to do there, especially with Frederick
Seares, but also with other staff members, with whom Kapteyn had become
friends. One of them, whom we have not yet met, is Charles Edward St. John
(1857–1935), who had joined the staff of Mount Wilson in 1908.
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Fig. 12.9 Pieter Johannes van Rhijn. Reproduction of a crayon drawing donated by
his relatives to the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute. This drawing hangs in the Kapteyn
Room
great friendships lay behind them, but a new and promising life lay ahead of this
couple, that still had strength and zest to create new values in the final parts of
their lives.
After the end of the First World War, Kapteyn had made plans to visit Mount
Wilson again. He was still a Research Associate of the Carnegie Institution and
still felt he had to deliver something of value to justify the money he received for
it. In August 1919 he wrote George Hale. He asked Hale to excuse him for the
year 1920, because of the much work he wanted to finish in Groningen before
his retirement, but suggested that he would visit Pasadena and Mount Wilson
again in 1921. The final catalog of the Selected Areas, based on the photographic
work done with the 60 in. telescope, had not yet been completed. He wrote
George Hale again in April 1921 with the proposition to arrive in California
around December 1. He had a lot of work to do there, especially with Frederick
Seares, but also with other staff members, with whom Kapteyn had become
friends. One of them, whom we have not yet met, is Charles Edward St. John
(1857–1935), who had joined the staff of Mount Wilson in 1908.