Show Y V 9 v A Professor Edward Charles Pickering who was waa recently honored honor d by 11 the Royal Astronomical society with a n gold med mcd medal medal al nl for tor his Invaluable work on the varia arla variable ble hIe stare Is Iii n It descendant 1 of ot tho time famous Timothy Pickering who was adjutant general g under Washington In the tho Revo J t tY iL I lution ution 1 and his secretary of state slate and war when he was president lie He was born torn In hasten Boston in ISIS 1815 and und Is now director of ot the Harvard university lt observatory tor which he has made one of ot the foremost In the world This Is la the second time he h has received N a gold OM medal from the great astronomical society the first having been b n awarded n for his hb photometric re rev researches searches during which he observed measured and catalogued many thou thousand thousand sand stars tars |