Word: greenwich
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Naval Observatory at Washington, it is possible to compare the Harvard Observatory with the other leading observatories of the world. The Naval Observatory has the largest annual income--about $85,000. The National Observatory of France is second, with an income of $50,000, and the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, third, with $49,000. The Harvard Observatory and the Imperial Observatory of Russia, at Pulkowa, receive $46,000 yearly. The richest private Observatory is that at the Cape of Good Hope with an annual revenue of $33,000. In the relative values of their equipments the leading observatories rank differently...
...Yerkes telescope, with an aperture of forty inches. The Lick lens is thirty-six inches in aperture; the Royal Astrophysical Observatory at Potsdam has recently acquired a thirty- one inch photographic refractor; and the Pulkowa Observatory has a thirty inch lens, made by the late Alvan Clark of Cambridge. Greenwich and Washington have telescopes with apertures of twenty-six-inches. The largest instrument in the possession of the Harvard Observatory is the twenty four inch Bruce photographic telescope, mounted at Arequipa...