Harlow Shapley

What effect climate has on life and the conditions under which life might be supported on other planets was a subject explored recently by a group of scientists including HARLOW SHAPLEY.AS Paine Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Harvard Observatory, Harlow Shapley became internationally known for his famous studies of the Galaxies. The article which follows is part of a book, Climatic Change, by Dr. Shapley and others, to be published in December for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences by Harvard University Press.

► ► It is with particular pleasure that we direct our men of business to a new feature, the series of articles by H. B. Elliston, financial editor of the Christian Science Monitor, which will appear in the pages following the Contributors’ Column.