Word: alvan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Through the generosity of Dr. Alvan Talcott, of Guilford, Yale University has just been given the sum of $25,000, which the donor stipulates shall be used to endow a professorship of Greek...
...Alvan H. Clark has completed his work in the Lick Observatory and will return in a few days. Professor Keeler is the only astronomer on the ground, and is devoting himself to making stellar observations...
...Alvan G. Clark is still on Mount Hamilton, his work on the Lick telescope being delayed by the intensely cold weather...
...this volume. The frontispiece is a facsimile of the earliest existing record of the college - ; another facsimile; a photogravure of the original charter of Harvard, dating "the one and thirtieth day of the third month called May, 1650," is given, and two views of the yard in 1821, after Alvan Fisher, complete the illustrations...
...Alvan Clark & Sons of this city are building a telescope for the Russian government, to be placed in the observatory at Polkova. It will be 45 feet long, and the diameter of the object-glass is 30 inches. The telescope will be the largest ever made...