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Show ; PROFESSOR HOPES TO FLY VERY HIGH! NEW -YORK, March 17. Prof.! David Todd, director of the obsorva- tory of Amherst college, anuouncr-d to-1 night that in a few -weeks he would attempt a new altitude record In an! airplane driven by Major Ldo Stevens of the army air service, from the government gov-ernment field at Omaha, Neb. The aerial "expedition," it was elated, elat-ed, will be in search of new data of astronomical and meteorological im-importance. im-importance. Instruments and record ing devices necessary for discovery of electrical disturbances; the pros-, -gfrc ence and proportion of gases in the I III uPPc' air and olher unfamiliar 'lata' 111 will be carried by the explorers." j |