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Professor Max Wolf,

15 March 1916

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Heidelberg, Germany.

My dear Colleague:
It is a long time since I have written
to you, and I appreciated very much the kind letter
you sent me last spring. The situation with
which we are concerned is a terrible one, and I


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am sure that all scientific men must regard.it in
much the same way; but I feel doubtful whether
discussions of it could be anything but embarrassing
to those whose letters are opened, in any country
in Europe. I trust that your family and kinsfolk
have been spared from the fatalities which have
been so general, and which apparently must continue
for some time longer. I presume your work is much
restricted by the absence of some of your younger assistants.
I greatly regretted to hear of your loss of one of them
by death.
I do not know whether you regularly receive
the magazines from other belligerent countries. If you
do see the Comptes Rendus, you have doubtless noted the
various publications by Comas Sola regarding his supposed
easy method of discovering proper motions among the
stars and clusters by the stereoscope. It is perfectly

evident that he is the victim of a delusion, but