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...means of the statistics compiled in the recent investigation of the United States 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...
...largest refracting lens in use is that of the great 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...
...students who enter Harvard from public schools is steadily increasing. "Considering that the number of persons who entered the four classes of Harvard College in 1900 is three times as large as it was in 1871, the persistence of the percentage from public schools is highly satisfactory. The largest proportional increase occurs in the number of persons admitted from other colleges and other Harvard departments; but the tendency of persons coming from other colleges to enter the Graduate School direct is reducing the number of persons of this class who are admitted to Harvard College...
...addition to these photographs now being taken in Cambridge, a large number of duplicate pictures are also being taken at the station in Peru. The Bruce telescope there in use is the largest photographic telescope in the world. These photographs are also to be preserved at the Cambridge astronomical library and by a comparison of the two it is hoped that, interesting and valuable conclusions will be reached...
...great value of the specimens arises from the fact that most of them have passed through the hands of the late Professor Lesguerenux, who has been called the Nestor of Palacobotany in this country. Tweleve geologic llorizons are represented, the largest number of specimens being of the Carboniferous. Cretaceous and Tertiary periods. This latter gorup is chiefly made up of types from the collection of Heer, the eminent Swss pa aeontologist. Other specimens have been purchased with a portion of the Lee fund, among them a sereis of forty six choice slides of carboniferous plants, for microscopic study, prepared...