BARNARD, EDWARD EMERSON Amer ican astronomer, was born in Nashville, Tenn., on Dec. 16, He began his studies alone in boyhood. In 1887 he graduated at Vanderbilt university, after having charge of the observatory there for four years. In 1887 he was appointed astronomer at Lick Observatory, and from 1895 until his death he was professor of practical astronomy and astronomer of Yerkes Observatory, at the University of Chicago. He accompanied the U.S. Naval Ob servatory Eclipse Expedition to Sumatra (19o1). His contribu tions to observational astronomy were numerous and important. In celestial photography he obtained excellent results and dis covered 16 comets, Jupiter's fifth satellite and the star with the greatest known motion (1916) . He was associate editor of the Astronomical Journal and the author of Micrometrical Observa tions of Eros Made During Opposition of 1900-1901.
A bibliography may be found in J. A. Parkhurst's "Edward Emerson Barnard," in National Academy of pp. . For further biographical material consult: Royal Astronomical Society, Monthly Notices, vol. lxxxv., pp. 221-225 ; Robert G. Aiken's "Edward Emerson Barnard in Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. xxxv., pp.