ABSTRACT
As we have already noticed, Davis during his final student year at Harvard obtained a post under Dr Gould at the new Observatory at Cordoba in the Argentine. An interesting note in a paper by Gould on the discovery of a new variable star T Coronae four years before shows not only that Davis had come to his attention previously but that the interest of the latter in astronomy dates from his early years:
Mr. Wm. M. Davis, Jr., of Philadelphia, saw the star on the evening of May 12 (1866), called the attention of his family and friends to the phenomenon, and noted in his journal that the star was as bright as a Coronae.
( Gould, 1866, p. 82)