WOLSINGHAM OBSERVATORY.

Professor Sara Seager was born and grew up in Toronto, Canada. Among her first memories is a trip to a “star party” with her father, to see the moon through a telescope—spectacular! Professor Seager graduated from Jarvis Collegiate Institute, and studied at the University of Toronto. After graduating with a B.Sc. in the Math and Physics Specialist Program at the U of T, Seager attended the Ph.D. program in Astronomy at Harvard.

Henry Norris Russell (1877-1957) was elected an honorary member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada on 1946-01-18. The following citation was read:

Professor Henry Norris Russell has just completed forty years on the faculty of Princeton University. During this period there are few fields in astronomy and astrophysics in which, alone or with collaborators, he has not made outstanding contributions.

Herbert Hall Turner (13 August 1861, Leeds – 20 August 1930, Stockholm) was a British astronomer and seismologist.