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1911 Meeting of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Society of America

A black and white 1911 photograph of a group of people on a hilltop standing and talking

John Stanley Plaskett;  National Research Council Canada.

The August 1911 meeting of the AASA was held at the Dominion Observatory in Ottawa on the invitation of the Plaskett. This was the first meeting of the Society outside Canada. One day of the meeting was held in Wakefield, Quebec. The attendees travelled by train and had informal discussion on nearby hillsides.