Juan E. Muñiz

fl. 1896 - 1923

BiographyJuan E. Muñiz was a member of the scientific staff of the Harvard College Observatory at Boyden Station, the observatory's observing station in Arequipa, Peru. In 1897, he worked under the leadership of Solon I. Bailey, who was in charge of the observing station, and continued on at the Boyden Station after Bailey returned to Cambridge in 1898. He designed and constructed various meteorological instruments, including an anemometer in 1900, and made meteorological observations. He repaired a silver disk pyrheliometer which the Smithsonian Institution lent to the Harvard observing station in Arequipa, Peru in 1912. A report from 1923 still lists him on the staff.

When mentioned in reports of the Boyden Station, he is typically called "Señor J. E. Muniz" or "Señor Muniz" or "Sr. Muniz" with a tilda on the "n" in "Señor" but not on his the "n" in his last name.

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Mentioned in Solon I. Bailey, "Peruvian Meteorology: Observations Made at the Auxiliary Stations, 1896-1900," Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College, vol. 86, part 3 (Cambridge: Harvard College Observatory, 1923), 119-194. <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1923AnHar..86..119B" target="_blank">SAO/NASA ADS</a>.

C. G. Abbot, Arequipa Pyrheliometry, Smithsonian MIscellaneous Collections, 65, no. 9 (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1916), 1. <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=PEcWAAAAYAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA123&ots=w3KGHZs3l7&dq=J.%20E.%20Mu%C3%B1iz%20peru&pg=RA1-PA123#v=onepage&q=J.%20E.%20Mu%C3%B1iz%20peru&f=false" target="_blank">online here</a>.

Edward C. Pickering, Fifty-Second Annual Report of the Director of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College for the Year Ending September 30, 1897 (Cambridge: Harvard University, 1897), 8 [Muniz working in Arequipa].

Edward C. Pickering, Fifty-Third Annual Report of the Director of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College for the Year Ending September 30, 1898 (Cambridge: Harvard University, 1898), 5 [Muniz working in Arequipa].

Edward C. Pickering, Fifty-Fifth Annual Report of the Director of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College for the Year Ending September 30, 1900 (Cambridge: Harvard University, 1900), 11 [Muniz working in Arequipa; designing and building self-recording anemometers].

Edward C. Pickering, Fifty-Sixth Annual Report of the Director of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College for the Year Ending September 30, 1901 (Cambridge: Harvard University, 1901), 8 [Muniz working in Arequipa].

His full name is given in a list of Scientific Staff of the Harvard College Observatory (Cambridge, Massachusetts; Arequipa, Peru; and Mandeville, Jamaica), published in Joel Stebbins, ed., "Reports of Observatories, 1922-1923," Publications of the American Astronomical Society, 5 (1927): 99- 138, see p. 107. <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1927PAAS....5...99." target="_blank">SAO?NASA ADS</a>.

E. C. Pickering, "Methods of the Observatory," from the Director's Annual Report, reprinted in The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, vol. 7 (Boston: The Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association, 1899), pp. 569-572. See 571.