Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:03:07 -0500 From: Roberta Humphreys Dear Colleagues, I realize that a large number of astrometrists will be at the retirement symposium for Bill Van Altena. Would you be willing to make the following announcement at some point during the symposium or distribute it to your participants. I am aware the relationship between Willem Luyten and Bill was often vitriolic at least on Luyten's part. I did not know about the symposium until today when Kyle Cudworth told me about it, otherwise I would have tried to attend. My best wishes to Bill. Thank you, Roberta Humphreys ****************************************************************************** University of Minnesota -- Luyten publications The University of Minnesota has now asked us to clean out the room used to store Professor Willem Luyten's materials. This includes copies of many of his famous publications, catalogs, and books about stars and stellar motions. This material will be put in temporary storage for one year. After that, anything not claimed will be discarded. Some of the publications available include: The Bruce Proper Motion Survey - 2vols The NLTT -- 4 vols LHS -- catalog and atlas The SGP The NGP The series "Proper Motions from the 48-inch Schmidt plus other publications in his University of Minnesota series Books -- The Stars of Low Luminosity The Hyades White Dwarfs Mu -- IAU Colloquium #7 If you are interested in obtaining copies of any of these plus other publications for your personal use, for your department or university libraries, please contact Roberta Humphreys (roberta@umn.edu). --