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F.R.A.S.

American  

abbreviation

  1. Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.


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F.R.A.S., tries to figure out where to land on the moon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Maw, F.R.A.S., has seen, with a 6 inch Cooke refractor, a bright marking at the N. extremity of the ring, which, when examined with a Dawes' eyepiece, resembled an imperfect crater.

From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger

In this matter the writer is under great obligations to his friend and assistant, Mr. James Cook, F.R.A.S., who gave him his first lessons in lens-making some twenty years ago.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

Translated and edited, with the author's sanction, by Benjamin Loewy, F.R.A.S., with a preface, by G.C.

From Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught by Joshua Rose

Chambers, F.R.A.S., author of "Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy," etc.

From Other Worlds Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries by Garrett Putman Serviss

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