Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Professor Bailey reached the summit of Misti, an old volcano, 19,200 feet above the level of the sea. Here, with a great deal of trouble, an instrument shelter was built. It was the original plan to visit this station once in every ten days to wind the instruments there, which would run for that length of time. It was found impossible to visit Misti summit always at the interval of ten days, and now a meteorgraph has been made for the station which will run for three months...
...Mollendo, Peru. The telescope will be shipped on the "Condor" of the Merchants Line around South America through the Straits of Magellan to Peru. It is sent this roundabout way to avoid the handling of the lenses by inexperienced hands at the Isthmus of Panama. From Mollendo the instrument will be taken by rail about 75 miles inland to Arequipa. The chief difficulty will be met there in transferring the heavy machinery to the observatory about three miles away, as the roads are very poor and the means of transportation even worse...
...building which is to receive the telescope will be of stout stone walls, without windows, to protect the instrument against stray missiles in times of insurrection. The dome will be a light skeleton covered with canvas. The absence of frost and snow renders this possible...
...advantages of the station at Arequipa, Peru, have been so pronounced that it will be maintained permanently, and the Bruce photographic telescope, the latest acquisition to the equipment of the observatory, will be sent there in the near future. This instrument has proved very successful in photographing stars too faint to be photographed by other instruments and thus enabling them to be studied...
...office and a large operating room. There are also on this floor eleven stalls,- six ordinary ones, and five box stalls, two of which are arranged for violent cases. The second floor has twelve more stalls; the dog ward, in which are twenty-five kennels, the pharmacy, and the instrument room...